i've seen folks asking about a way to convert aol style stock quotes for
importation into quicken. today i stumbled across a shareware program
available on aol, called quickstock. the archive is named quickstk.zip
(i believe), and it's in the financial apps section. if you do a
quickfind search for that file name you should find it. anyway, it
claims that when you run the program, it automatically calls up your
WAOL program, runs it, gets your stock portfolio, signs off, converts
the aol to quicken format, calls up quicken, imports the data, and then
either closes quicken or keeps it running, as you specify. i just d/l
it and ran it. it seemed to work fine up to the point where it was
supposed to call up my quicken program; i haven't figured out what the
problem is yet, but haven't had a chance to make sure i had the settings
right. anyway, it's there if you want to take a look at it (it's got a
rather ingenious shareware nag as well--makes you type in a long, random
number once it signs on to aol before it'll proceed--not as easy to
defeat as a simple "ok" button to push . . . .). if it works, it'd be
great.
--mitch