From: yahdoco <yahdoco@...>
Date: 2007-09-07T04:00:10+09:00
Subject: Re: running ruby

> Have you actually read the responses to your questions?
> For 1: Start -> Run -> command.com
> For 2: Right click on title bar of command window, Properties, Colors tab.
> *Both* of these questions have been answered. Multiple times.
> Phillip Gawlowski
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Hi Phillip...I have not ignored the messages sent here. Let me begin
by saying that I am using Windows98. It may have some limitations you
are not aware of. I have carried out the operations you are talikng
about. Here are the results:

start>run>enter "command.com"
c:\WINDOW\Desktop>
Right Click on Title Bar
(DIALOG BOX comes up)
MS-DOS Prompt Properties
TABS->|Program,Font,Memory,Screen,Misc|
There is no Colors Tab.
When I click on Screen, it shows the screen
I will get (white characters on a black
foreground). There is no button to control
color or reverse black and white.
I have gone to the Control Panel-->Display in MyComputer. It allows me
to control colors in many places, but not in this window. It looks
like I change what I would like to change. Thanks for trying to help
me.
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My next plan is to try to transfer the data from the black-white
screen to a Notepad file called outzzz.txt. Perhaps someone can
correct my code below to make this happen. Here is the code:
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#generate some simple output (comment)
puts "Hello World"

f = File.new("outzzz.txt", "w")
f.write("this is a test")

require 'open-uri'
require 'csv'

def get_adjusted_close stock_symbol
  puts "-- #{stock_symbol} Adjusted Close - Historical --"
  url = "http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?
s=#{stock_symbol}&d=7&e=1&f=2006&g=d&a=2&b=26&c=1990&ignore=.csv"
  puts "Connecting to #{url}\n"

  csv = CSV.parse(open(url).read)

  csv.each{|row|
    puts "#{row[0]} - #{row.last}"
}
  puts "---------------------------------"
end

example_stocks = "CSCO GOOG"
print "Enter a series of stock symbols separated by spaces (example:
#{example_stocks}) to retrieve the historical adjusted close.\n"
stock_symbols = gets
stock_symbols ||= example_stocks

stock_symbols.split.each{|symbol|
  get_adjusted_close(symbol)
  f.write(get_adjusted_close(symbol))
}

Thanks for your help. Yahdoco