smtm CSCO NT
    

creates a window following the Cisco and Nortel stocks.

    smtm MSFT:Bill SUNW:Scott ORCL:Larry
    

follows three other tech companies and uses the override feature for the displayed name. [ Historical note: We once needed that for European stocks as Yahoo! did not supply the company name way back in 1999 or so. This example just documents an ancient feature. ]

    smtm BT.A.L::10:GBPCAD \
         T::10:USDCAD \
         BCE.TO::10 \
         13330.PA::10:EURCAD \
         "555700.F:DT TELECOM:10:EURCAD"
    

creates a window with prices for a handful of telecom companies on stock exchanges in London, New York, Toronto, Paris and Frankfurt. Note how a name is specified for the German telco to override the verbose default. Also determined are the number of shares, here 10 for each of the companies. Lastly, this example assumes a Canadian perspective: returns are converted from British pounds, US dollars and Euros into Canadian dollars. Quotation marks have to be used to prevent the shell from splitting the arguments containing spaces.

Last modified: Sun Mar 16 10:23:04 CST 2003