problem with 'unable to retrieve quotes'

[einomailbox-gen3 at yahoo.com]

Amazingly, this fixes the problem!
Seems like gnucash needs a case conversion in security
symbols.
Thanks, David, for the help.

--- David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Perhaps 'INTC' instead of 'intc'? I have
> successfully retrieved Intel 
> quotes through Gnucash (though 1.8.9 was the
> earliest version I used).
> 
> Dave
> On Feb 14, 2005, at 8:39 PM,
> <einomailbox-gen3 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have SUSE linux 9.2 which includes gnucash
> 1.8.8.
> > I've just started using this for the first time.
> > I've set up one simple account with stock INTC,
> which
> > is a nasdaq stock, and set yahoo as quote source.
> > When I click in the price editor on 'get quotes'
> > I get an error message:
> > "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:
> > NASDAQ:intc"
> > The command 'dump-finance-quote yahoo intc'
> > gives a correct looking reply.
> > (by the way: the command 'dump-finance-quote yahoo
> > NASDAQ:intc' doesn't work)
> >
> > Any suggestion how to fix this?
> > Is there debug info somewhere that makes it easy
> > to trace what's going wrong?
> >
> > Thanks, EJ.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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