
After some amount of fussing I am going to conclude that reuter's datalink w/ "the downloader" utility is not linux friendly.  

There is no unix version of the utility and both available windows version do not run cleanly in the current stable and latest version of wine.

VMWare Fusion on the Mac runs the utility fine.  I downloaded 2600 equities into the reuter's/equis proprietary file format -- absolutely useless for use with MySQL -- so I went to convert to ASCII and was given menu options that allowed for conversion OF ONE(!!) file at time. 

Total Crap. 

> From: n_torenvliet@hotmail.com
> To: r-sig-finance@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:22:16 -0500
> Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] Data service
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> A couple of the other posts lately got me looking around the net for data services.  I'm looking for historical markets, futures and econometrics from a linux friendly vendor and cheap.  Any suggestions?
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> Nick
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