Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

Ronal B Morse ron at morsehouse.com
Tue Jul 1 11:13:39 EDT 2014


On 07/01/2014 06:13 AM, Richard Lindgren wrote:
> Ronal,
>
> Your message came just at the right time. I was ready to throw in the 
> towel and go to manually entering my prices. Your information showed 
> very clearly how to work with the Command Prompt and was extremely 
> informative for this non-programmer. I did what you said to install 
> "Date-Manip" and it came back with the message that the file was not 
> compatible with the perl module. I was running Strawberry 5.20. Not 
> knowing what you were running, I uninstalled that program and 
> installed Strawberry 5.18. BINGO! I repeated the same process and low 
> and behold, it worked. After every change within the command prompt, I 
> rebooted. I then went to GnuCash 2.63 and started the utility for 
> retrieving prices. After doing that I again rebooted. I opened up 
> GnuCash and it worked without any errors appearing.
>
>
> Boy! What a relief! Now maybe I can get to the normal business at 
> hand. I want to thank everyone who helped here.
>
> Richard
>
>
<snip>

Hoohaa!  Glad you got it going.  A mere mortal man would have abandoned 
the project messages ago.
For the record, all the reboots probably aren't necessary, but then 
again, it's Windows so I never know, either.

RBM


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