[ Please make use of the "ls-lR" file (ls output) to find things of interest. Thanks. PLEASE NOTE: All data here is user contributed. We make no claims to the accuracy of the data under /pub/archives/misc.invest and are not responsible for the content. Ed Savage egsavage@gmail.com ] Subject: Investment data collection at FTP site... Do you have some historical investment data you'd like to share with the rest of the world? Stocks? Commodities? Mutual Funds? Investment programs that one could not otherwise find out on the internet? Maybe something (freely redistributable) you've downloaded off of a BBS? If so, please FTP your files to the system below. When doing so, please try to pick meaningful filenames such as: nyse.1992.Z Stock quotes for NYSE for 1992, compressed nyse.1992.readme A (required) readme file describing the file. Please include your E-Mail address in this file. Purpose: To collect as much publicly available market data in one place so people can FTP it easily. System: sunsite.unc.edu Login: anonymous Password: YourEMailAdddress Directory: pub/archives/misc.invest WARNING: ONLY *FREELY REDISTRIBUTABLE* DATA IS ALLOWED ON THIS SITE!!! If you notice some data this is NOT freely redistributable, PLEASE send E-Mail to me telling me which file(s) you believe to be questionable. Uploading copyrighted data to sunsite is a quick way to kill this FTP site - please don't do it. Feel free to put your contributions in the misc.invest/incoming directory (or make another directory in "incoming" if there are a large amount of files). Also, after adding something to the archive, please send me E-Mail (egsavage@email.com) alerting me to what it is. A quick overview of the type (ie., the suffix) of files you'll see out there: .Z compressed - use "compress" or "gunzip"/"gzip -d" to uncompress these. An MS-DOS executable can be found in the archive-utilities/gzip directory. .gz gzip'ed - "gunzip"/"gzip -d" to uncompress these. An MS-DOS executable can be found in the archive-utilities/gzip directory. .tar.Z compressed tar file - you'll need some version of the tar archive program to play with this one (along with gzip or compress). .zip a zip archive - see the archive-utilities/zip directory for various sources or executables of the zip programs. If someone has something to contribute but they do not have FTP access, feel free to E-Mail me the files along with a README and I'll put them out there for you. If you do not have FTP access, you may want to check into these FTP-by-Email services (extracted from Scott Yanoff's Internet services list - contact yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu): -FTP via EMail mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Subject: (hit return) Body-of-letter: help (return) quit mail ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Body-of-letter: help. Please, European users only. mail bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu mail ftpmail@doc.ic.ak.uk mail BITFTP@DEARN or to BITFTP@vm.gmd.de (Europe only) Body-of-letter: help or ftplist for a list of anon. ftp sites. Thanks... --Ed egsavage@gmail.com