I understand..I was thinking along the lines of "skipping the middle-man"...

Thanks,
Joe

>>I am just curious...this means Yahoo is the source of the data..where does Yahoo get their data? Probably a non-Internet source, but I am just curious...
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>>Joe
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>>>Check out the httpget() function inside the WebConnect shareware version in the libraries here. For example, you can
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>>> X= httpGet("http://quote.yahoo.com/quotes?s=MSFT+NOVL&d=v2")
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>>>... to get the latest quotes from Yahoo on Microisoft and Novell. This sucks the HTML into variable X, which you can then easily parse. No need for Activex at all...
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>the httpGet function should work on almost any site that allows users to request quotes.