Alexandru Harsanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why can't gnucash download the stock prices each time it is started?.
> When the user loads a file it should ask the question "You stock price
> info is x days old. Do you want do download new stock prices?" and
> download the information if the user wants to.
In some cases, this would be fine, but what if the user wants to use
gnucash to store an account with the stock prices from each day and
generate graphs from that? If they don't run gnucash every day, then
they're sunk.
> After all, you not only need to run the scripts, but you must also
> set up an Internet connnection if the user has a dial-up line
> instead of a permanent link. This complicates the problem...
I consider configuring net connectivity to be SEP (Someone Else's
Problem). The user would do that elsewhere (diald, ppp with demand
dialing, separate cron script, whatever).
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Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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