🚀 go-pugleaf

FYI; haven't yet tried this myself.

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Jim Cassell                                        Jim_Cassell@UNC.EDU
Institute for Research in Social Science           Phone:  919-962-0782
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill           Fax:    919-962-4777
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3355   USA

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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 15:03:29 -0800
From: InterNIC Info Scout <scout@is.internic.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <net-resources@is.internic.net>
Subject: SEC'S EDGAR DATABASE



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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 16:44:20 EST
From: Michael Ward <mike@essential.org>
To: scout@is.internic.net
Subject: SEC'S EDGAR DATABASE

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TAXPAYER ASSETS PROJECT - INFORMATION POLICY NOTE
CROWN JEWELS CAMPAIGN - SEC'S EDGAR


SEC'S EDGAR DATA NOW AVAILABLE OVER INTERNET

     Beginning January 17, 1993, the NSF funded project to put
the SEC's EDGAR filings on the Internet began operation.  The
service is provided by NYU and the Internet Multicasting Service
(IMS), the later a service run by Carl Malamud.

     The EDGAR filings are stored on an ftp site at
town.hall.org, in a subdirectory called edgar.  The data are now
available both by email and by ftp.  For documentation on how to
use the service, send an email message to mail@town.hall.org,
with the word help in the body of the message.

     As best as we can figure, the system seems to work as
follows.  There is a file with the names of all the filings,
called company.idx.  You will need to get a copy of this file,
which is large and growing, often, since the file names are not
obvious.  (We hope that NYU/IMS will find a more efficient way to
transmit this information to users).  Then, armed with the file
name, you can get the file by a simple email or ftp command.

1.   GET THE COMPANY.IDX FILE

     By email:

     Send Email to "mail@town.hall.org".  In the body of the
     message write:

                    send edgar/company.idx


     By ftp:

     FTP to town.hall.org. Logon as "anonymous". Give your email
     address as your password. At the ftp> prompt type:

               ascii                         (then hit enter)

               get edgar/company.idx         (then hit enter)

               bye                      (then enter to logoff)



2.   NEXT, FIND DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST.


Example lines in the company.Idx file:

DISNEY WALT CO   10-K   19940113  data1/0000950131-94-00021.txt
                        ^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                         Date                File Name



3.   RETRIEVING THE FILES OF INTEREST.


By EMAIL:

Send email to "mail@town.hall.org".  In the body of the message
type:

               send edgar/data1/0000950131-94-00021.txt

By ftp:

FTP to town.hall.org. Logon as "anonymous". Give your email
address as your password. At the ftp> prompt type:

               ascii                         (then hit enter)

               cd data1                      (then hit enter)

               get 0000950131-94-00021.txt   (then hit enter)

               bye                      (then enter to logoff)


[The above file name gives you the 10-K for the Walt Disney Co.]


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