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Thanks to Equis tech support, but unfortunately file conversion from
ASCII to MSPRO format does not work for me using Downloader ver. 6.0 on
this Quotes.com downloaded file. (Quotes.com does not provided tech
support, they told me.) Just to test thesis that ASCII file was too
large, I tried conversion from a small part of file consisting of first
5 lines. Got error message: "NO file matching sources were found.
Status: Conversion No source data."
ASCII file downloaded from Quotes.com was data of 3/9/97. No reason
to traverse data since was trying to update only one MSPRO subfolder.
There are no errors in the destination directories files, since
the only one was newly created with no data. I appreciate your
assistance, but it is now clear why so few people try conversion of
downloaded ASCII data to MetaStock directories: it is too difficult.
Can you recommend any provider of end-of-day data for MetaStock? I
have run through most of them. Quotes.com files are too difficult to
convert and Quotes. com doesn't provide tech support. Quotes Plus does
a wonderful job of updating MSPRO directories but is no good because it
requires maintaining a superfluous 80MB database on hard disk. Others
are quite expensive. Any data sources I may have missed would be
appreciated.
Thanks, CMA
Metastock List wrote:
> I just converted this file without problems in both The DownLoader for
>
> Windows 6.0 and 6.5. The error report indicates the problem occurred
> at
> line 2949 of the ASCII file. Have you opened the file in an ASCII
> editor and looked at line 2949? My suspicion really is the file is
> too
> large. You might try breaking it in 1/2 and trying to convert it.
>
> Another question. Is this file one days data on more than 2000
> issues?
> Do you have traverse destination folders selected?
>
> Equis Support
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cma [SMTP:cma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 1997 2:27 PM
> > To: Jim Michael
> > Cc: Marco Guglielmo; metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: US stock data file conversion
> >
> > Jim, here is another question along the same lines: how to convert
> > ASCII
> > file data into MSPRO data (appending the data to end of MSPRO
> files.)
> > Could not do it with Downloader's Conversion tool. What is a PERL
> > script?
> > I have attached a small part of a Quotes.com (ASCII text)
> > downloaded
> > file for 3/9/97 NYSE stocks. Attached file is "stks0309.txt" I
> tried
> > to used MSPRO 6.0 Downloader's Conversion Tool.
> > Here is the Convert Securities Dialog (p. 65 of manual).
> > Source: ASCII Text
> > Folder: e:\downloads
> > File Name: stks0309.txt
> >
> > Destination: File Type: MetaStock
> > Folder: c:\mspro\apractic
> > FileName: (grayed out)
> >
> > Conversion Report was revealing. Added: 0 Discarded: 0
> > Showed correct source but incorrect destination of
> > c:\mspro\apractic\stks0309.txt
> > The destination should have been c:\mspro\apractic
> > Error report: "Warning #2052 (line 2949). No data from source
>
> > file converted. "
> >
> > CMA
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Marco Guglielmo wrote:
> > > > I am using the daily file quotations downloaded free from the
> > > > www.gofutures.com site.
> > > > Considering that the ASCI file has more than 16,000 strings of
> > data,
> > >
> > > > does anybody advise me how to extract in a quick way only some
> > > hundreds
> > > > stock quotations?
> > >
> > > Describe the data more accurately. What do you mean by 16K strings
>
> > of
> > > data? Post a sample of the data and also a sample of what you
> would
> > > like
> > > to extract and I can probably post a sample of Perl code which
> will
> > do
> > >
> > > what you want. Alternatively to Perl, you can import all into
> Access
> > > and
> > > then use queries to extract. Again, a sample of data is better
> than
> > > any
> > > description.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Jim
> >
> > << File: stks0309.htx >>
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