Reading a URL

[Bay]

I am unable to get "Foreign Data as a Workfile" to read a URL from St Louis Fed FRED web site. I hesitates for a few seconds or so and sends me back to the EVIEWS screen. I am following the example in Startz book for Version 7 (pg 48 - 50). I have EVIEWS 7 and Windows 7 32 bit.

Thanks

[EViews Gareth]

Might be a bug.

You can still do it from the command line:

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wfopen http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/WGS1YR.txt

Although, of course, if you're using EViews 7 and want to get data from FRED, you might was to just use the FRED interface (File->Open->Database, then switch database type to FRED)