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At 10:16 PM -0700 1/15/98, Gary Fritz wrote:

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>
>But I often find I want to start looking at a symbol I haven't tracked
>before, or that I don't trust the data I have over a long period,
>and I'd really like to load up that ONE SYMBOL for a long period of time.
>E.g. it would be nice to go somewhere and download the entire history
>for DSP9Z, or the December history for INTC, or whatever.  You could
>do this by downloading Omega's data, but that requires downloading
>ALL symbols day-by-day -- and that's 200-300kb per DAY, for one day
>of DSP9Z or whatever.  Not a very efficient solution.
>
>Surely SOMEone somewhere must make symbol-by-symbol data available!
>If not, maybe we should form a co-op for combining our data to fill in
>any holes, and post it in some central site.  I know I'd find that
>useful.
>
>Does this already exist somewhere?
>Gary

I have a similar need.

I was think of getting the UniServe Server.

See (http://www.uniserv.com/index.htm)

It says it will collect real-time data on all symbols automatically. I
wonder if anybody has any experience with it?

Bob Fulks






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