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Actually equis already has provided this. You can get their source code in C
for the Metastock file format. So yes you could write your own program just
like you explained below.
Harley Meyer
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 20:40:44 -0400,
private-investor@xxxxxxx wrote...
>Let me tell you somthing: that stinks. What I would expect from Equis ???
>(hey do somthing about it) is a simple program in Pascal or C or Cobol,
>which reads e-mail *.prn file with diffrent stocks and then updates ms
>files. This could run even under
>old good DOS, yes you could update your ms files in Dos and then work with
>them under Win...
>If Equis does not want to do it, may be someone could post that kind of
>code.
>
>Pi=3.14
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>From: Jozef G Ron de <joederon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: 'METASTOCK-LIST' <metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Free data.
>Date: Sunday, June 01, 1997 10:13 PM
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>Following the advice of many subscribers to this list I started out this
>evening to copy all my data from downloaded by E-mail from the
>moneynet.com.
>First I copied all the text files into ms excel. Next we sorted all the
>data in the spread sheet by date and symbol columns. Next converted the
>spread sheet to excel version 4, than we hat to copy and paste into another
>spread sheet to get the data in the right order (date, close, high, etc. )
>and saved each stock update in a different file.
>Next we used the downloader to convert the excel spread sheets to Metastock
>files and finally we merged the data into each stock file under Metastock.
>It works.
>BUT, this is time consuming if you are tracking 25 stocks/mutual funds or
>more and have to daily/ weekly update your stocks.
>Our updated Metastock files, although some columns are missing data we
>still can analyze with most of the indicators and use some of the advisors
>commentaries.
>
>Jozef g. de Ron. joederon@xxxxxxxxxx
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Harley Meyer
meyer093@xxxxxxxxxx
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