It's been rumoured that Paul Fenwick said:
>
> > > >> Unfortunately the funds from Union Investment www.union-investment.de
> > > >> are there also not available.
> > > >
> > > >http://bbbank.teledata.de:9056/bbbank/Uebersicht.htm
>
> > gnc-prices doesn't actually fetch the data directly, that is done
> > by a perl module Quote.pm. This module has recently been broken
> > out into a separate project, located at
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=4232
>
> Finance::Quote supports a variety of sources, the most useful being
> yahoo and yahoo_europe. While these provide access to a number of
> funds and mutual stocks, there are still a great deal that cannot
> be fetched through Yahoo!.
>
> There are plans to do a bit of a rewrite to Finance::Quote to allow
> more 'pluggable modules' types of methods. This hasn't started properly
Well, one can certainly 'hard-code' new data sources into it. The idea
of 'pluggable' is to make it easier to add more sources more easily.
There is nothing that prevents you from adding teledata sources now.
--linas
