Bond prices in GnuCash by means of Valora number?

[John Ralls]

On Mar 21, 2013, at 6:03 PM, rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Have Finance::Quote working again.  I forgot that I had renamed quote.pm in
> order to replace it with an experimental version.  Running the install
> script again identified it as 1.17, which is not the latest version.  It
> retrieved my stock and currency quotes, bot not the bond mentioned above.  I
> tried Yahoo Australia, Australian Stock Exchange and Fidelity Direct. 
> Fidelity Direct is apparently not correctly implemented, as it displays a
> hard error.  Both of the other 2 report failure for the code/symbol provided
> and offer to retrieve quotes for the other securities.  
> I have now found these instructions:
> http://www.candland.net/2008/02/23/getting-financequote-installed-and-working-on-windows-for-gnucash/
> on how to build Finance::Quote for Windows, and this reference:
> http://superuser.com/questions/462369/where-do-i-find-nmake-for-windows-xp
> to a source for nmake for Windows:
> ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/Nmake15.exe
> I will try to build Finance::Quote 1.18 and report back.
> 

Before you put a lot of effort into this, do you know of a financial website that can take Valora numbers? It's quicker and easier to test that in your browser than by fiddling with Finance::Quote. 

Regards,
John Ralls