That's good to know. I know that my institution, Desert Schools Federal Credit Union packs up that kind of data in a nice tab delimitted file - easy to read even in a text editor! I'll probably use their file format as a typical deal for batch data entry. On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Kirk Wood wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > > ... As this thing evolves, I wouldn't mind seeing > > what could be done to "hook it up" to financial institutions like they do > > with Quicken and Money. They probably use a licensed protocle that would > > require a fee or something but that would be a long ways from what I'm > > starting with. .... > > Actually, the latest trend in online banking is that the client no longer > connects to the bank. Instead, you chose to have the bank package the data > into a file that can then be imported into your program. I won't try to be > an armchair lawyer commenting about the legality of reverse engineering > the file structure. But if you wanted this type of thing, that seems like > the way to go. In fact, it might be interesting if you could work with the > files from say Quicken. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at > a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." > - President George Bush > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
