Automatic updates

[Mike Evans]

On Tuesday August 3 2010 04:49:27 John Ralls wrote:
> On Aug 2, 2010, at 2:20 PM, John Northcott wrote:
> > Dear sirs,  Yse I am new to LINUX, but have found my way to the terminal
> > screen and can get myself as a superuser.  I can also get myself to the
> > library /usr/bin.  What I do not know is what do I type in to run a
> > program (gnc-fq-update)  I am anxious to see if I can get prices of
> > stocks listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange ( Canada) I have put the
> > trail stock in as a fund as I do not know if it is on any other system
> > you have listed.
> > Looking forward to your reply, and thanks in advance.  John Northcott.
> 
> Well, assuming that you've gotten Gnucash installed somewhere on your path
> (which should be the case if you used your distribution's package facility
> to install it), simply typing gnc-fq-update should do it. If it doesn't,
> try "locate gnc-fq-update" to see where it got put, and then invoke it
> with a full path (or add that path to $PATH).
> 
> This isn't really the place to learn how to use Linux; there are hundreds
> of websites and dozens of books available that are.
> 
> What has any of that to do with automatic updates? (Gnucash doesn't provide
> automatic updates, if that was a question that you forgot to ask. Some
> Linux distributions do, but that has nothing to do with us.)
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

I don't think he means automatic updates of GnuCash, I take it he wants share 
prices to automatically update as described at 
http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-stockprice1.html.

Mike E

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