On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:24:22PM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> I submitted something like 3 patches to Dj and he turned them all down,
> indicated that it was dead, he'd lost interest, and I should do as I pleased.
Okay -- that would have been before my time then. I guess I started
pestering him about the same time; quite a few of teh subsequent patches
were from Debian users / bug reports. And I have to say that Dj was always
cordial ...
> The yahoo quotes for fidelity funds often differed from the quotes that
> fidelity themselves quoted. I don't know why. Also, yahoo didn't list
> all of the different fidelity funds, the newer ones were missing.
> It didn't list any but two of the troweprice funds, and the quotes
> for those were also insane. Yahoo also didn't list some funds that
> aren't publically tradable, stuff you'd only get in your retirement
> account. I think tiaa/cref fell in that category. So I figured that more
This still the case AFAIK. My wife has an account with them.
> quote sources == better. That's why 'yahoo' was stripped from the name.
Right. The scope was also different.
> > That is essentially the story of my fork and later re-join of F::YQ which I
> > now happen to maintain outright, and still maintain for Debian. Please look
> > at 0.20 which now supports a very vast number of symbols, incl earnings,
>
> Does it do currency? That's one was a big deal...
Yes, since 1999, using the Yahoo symbols in Philly such as ^XCD for the Can.
Dollar. Yahoo now even offers historical FX rates, that was missing for a
looomg time. Beancounter later switched to the CADEUR=X notation for crosses
between just about any iso codes. But IIRC these quotes are only available
for US trading days when the Philly exchange is open.
Having access to, say, the oanda.com FX service would be nifty -- and I
guess it would fit better into F::Q with its multiple source paradigm.
Apologies to Paul F: I was under the impression F::Q was dead, but I see
that there was a July 2003 release. Good news.
Cheers, Dirk
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-- Groucho Marx
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