I set up the list some years ago to discuss interesting uses of the xchange
feed, and you're right, there's some good software available (maintained by
Richard Schaal) in the ftp site associated with the list and there's quite a bit
of technical information about the feed in the mailing list archives.
A few months ago, I retired the UNIX systems I had at home, and decided to try
out the standard software from Ingenius (new name for X*Press Information
Systems). I had their XPress 4.0 for DOS, and ran it on an old Toshiba 286
luggable, but it would crash after a while, so I got their XPress for Windows
and have been using it under Windows95 on a 486. I think that its functions and
features aren't nearly as robust as they should be, and I've found the software
to be quite unreliable. Sometimes it crashes on exit, it seems to have ceased
keeping historical data on stocks, and most recently, it only receives correctly
for a litle while and then gets stuck in a mode where all packets come in as a
"data overrun". I haven't heard any indication that Ingenius plans new releases.
Does anyone have a working solution, perhaps using Richard's software as a base,
for receiving and reading the feed on a Windows 95 system?
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