Yahoo Quote Grabber Version .01

George Lengel
lengel1@comcast.net

1. INTRODUCTION
I had used a great Windows stock portfolio program for years called Fund Manager. It worked perfectly
under WinOS2. The author stopped updating it, but it was still fine for me until a few months ago when
the last quote server stopped working. I could then no longer download stock quotes automatically. I
had tried off and on to get the the 32 bit version working under Odin, but the the download would never
work due to networking code problems in Odin. I whipped up a REXX script to download quotes from
the Yahoo server and output them in a format to import to Fund Manager. I had been wanting for years
to learn GUI REXX programming and this seemed like an easy project to teach myself. I had VX REXX
and so I set off to create a GUI for my quote program.
Once I finished it, I thought I could finally  contribute something back to the community that had
produced so many awesome programs that I have used over the years.  My program is not much, but maybe
someone else can find it useful. Comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

II. INSTALLATION
Unzip into a directory and place VROBJ.DLL (not provided) either in the same directory or somewhere
in the LIBPATH.

III. USAGE
1.Be connected to the Internet before trying to download the quotes. Either dial into your ISP or have
a working broadband connection.
2. Choose a beginning date and ending date for the quotes to be retrieved.
3. Enter a series of stock symbols in the box. Each one needs to be separated by a space. To save the
list, press the save button and provide a name. The default is "TICKERS.LST". Multiple groups of symbols
can be used by loading each one from the Open button.
4. Click on Get Quotes
5. After the procedure is done, choose Save to save the list of quotes to a file for import into a program.

IIII. BUGS
I am sure there are plenty as I only got this working well enough to meet my needs. It was tested on a
Warp 4 machine running Object REXX 3. I am pretty sure it will work with Classic REXX as well.

