Unable to retrieve quotes

[David Hampton]

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 12:21 -0500, James A. de Haseth wrote:

> I have a similar problem while running RedHat 9 and GnuCash 1.8.10.  I
> can retrieve quotes on the command line with "dump-finance-quote" but I
> cannot get it to work from gnucash.  Depending on which source I use for
> the quotes I may get a response similar to yours, or I may get "There
> was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes."

What is the ticker symbol you have problems with?

> >From the command line I can use "NYSE" as the source.  Why is that not
> an option with gnucash?

'NYSE' is an alias for Yahoo inside of F::Q, as is 'nasdaq'.  Just use
'yahoo' inside of Gnucash.

David

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