Finance::Quote Patch

[David Carlson]

On 4/24/2012 9:22 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 4/24/2012 4:39 AM, Les Elliott wrote:
>> I have been having problems with currency updates since Jan 2012 and filed
>> a bug report, received a reply with a patch.
>> I am using Mac OSX and Gnucash 2.4.10 and F::Q 1.17.  Unfortunately, I
>> don't have a clue how to apply the patch.  Can someone point me to some
>> instructions please?
>> tia
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> Hi Les,
>
> Since https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673241 was closed it is
> now necessary to search the user mail archives for more details.  That
> bug report was intended to report the issues with selecting alternate
> quote sources and with finding multiple price entries ambiguously marked
> 'last' in the security price history if quotes were downloaded (more
> than once) while the market was open.
>
> If your patch file is named quote.pm and it is the same as the file by
> that name attached to
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2012-February/043255.html,
> I think that it is as simple as replacing the file that you already
> have.  Scroll down the thread that you find at
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Unable-to-receive-quote-for-CURRENCY-EUR-td4354816.html#a4362659
> for more information.  Be sure to read all the way to the last few
> entries dated in March.
>
> I am using Windows 7 so I cannot comment on how to inject the file into
> your OS.
>
> David C
>

I hope that this wordy reply can be of use to others that also have this
or a closely related concern, regardless of their operating system. 

David C
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