According to Dennis L. Shreve:
> Hi all,
> I am new to the list and have been 'lurking' for a couple of mos. I had
> hoped the traffic here would fill me in on all that xpress data has to
> offer, but the traffic has been light.
> Can some one point me to a FAQ, or explain the how, what, when, and where's
> of xpress data?
Brian Smithson usually has a canned blurb for those who are curious about the
official charter of this group.
> BTW - Richard - I will be joining the Iridium project in Chandler on 10/2/95.
Access to the Xpress news feed comes through your cable company, and as far as
I know, it is a "coming attraction" in Mesa, and is available in Scottsdale.
You can call 1-800-7PC-NEWS and find out the details from Ingenius, and
determine whether your cable company carries the feed. (the receiver ran me
about $150 as I recall a couple of years ago.) The Ingenius company has
software to run on a PC or a MAC, and has a premium service which is available
at a pretty nominal cost.
Some of us on the mailing list have systems which are not supported by
Ingenius, like unix boxes and an Amiga, or who were decidedly underwhelmed with
the original quality of the Xpress software. We have software which we make
available in source form which can be used to receive the "free" feed which
contains stock quotes and news articles. Normally, we recommend that the
articles be processed by CNEWS and a news reader like nn.
I'm currently formulating a set of software which can be used to collect and
display stock prices/volumes with gnuplot. Currently, there is little interest
in the group for tracking stocks, or everybody is being _VERY_ secretive about
what they are doing.
Regards,
Richard
> Thanks in advance.
> Dennis Shreve
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