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Posted by Michael Burgess on October 03, 2000 at 15:48:44:

Mark

Firstly, thanks for the updated retrieve module. Unfortunately, there still seem to be problem with some shares on Yahoo UK. Having updated all the symbols to include the suffix ".L" there are still a number of shares that won't update. Examples are Border TV - BTV.L, Domino Printing - DNO.L, Haynes Publishing - HYNS.L, and Hunting - HTG.L etc.

As Yahoo seem to be congenitally unable to resist changing their suffixes every few months I wonder whether it would be possible to amend Fund Manager to make alterations slightly easier. As you can imagine it is extremely tedious to have to go through 200 - 300 symbols updating the suffix to suit Yahoo's latest whim only to find they are then incompatible with other sources of data such as Market Eye.

One solution that would make things a lot easier would be an option on, say, the Internet Settings dialog to set a global suffix to be used at any given time. To be really useful it would need to work with both the Quote Servers such as Yahoo and any imported data.

In the meantime I would be grateful if you could have another look at the current module to see if there is any reason why the above shares are unwilling to update.

Many thanks

Michael

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