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I'd vote for Word 7.
My wishes are for improved programming capabilities, such
as:
1. The ability to do more efficient programming. When
upgrading to MetaStock for Windows from MS for DOS, and
just converting all of my own indicators over, MS for
Windows couldn't handle the calculations without using the
disk drive as a work space. With the DOS version, you had
the ability to set up a virtual disk and do all of your
calculations on this electronic scratch area.
2. Insert points at which we could add VB subroutines
and/or functions with the ability to access MS data
elements and massage them ourselves. This way, we can
build self-contained applications. Right now, we're
restricted to MS Office as our developmental environment.
Actually, the only thing I can use MetaStock for is
Downloader and then linking it to Excel for calculation
purposes.
3. A DLL which would give us access to MS Data (Date, Open,
High, Low, Close) via Visual Basic.
Anyway, that would help me.
Regards
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: J.W.E Roberts [SMTP:jan.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 1998 7:02 AM
To: markjala
Cc: MetaStock List
Subject: Re: Wish List
Hi Everybody,
it seems I trod loose an avalanche with the Wish List. The
process of compiling
& ordering proves to be more complicated than I expected. I
thought I could just
duplicate the structure (ie. chapters) of the handbook but
it turns out that
Your Esteemed Wishes are more diverse and far-reaching than
can be accomodated
in such a simple scheme. So I'll have to put on my thinking
cap again. I'm sorry
to say that I'll have no time to work on it this weekend;
rest assured however
that the project is not forgotten but on the contrary very
much alive.
As to the format: I proposed Word97, and I just got 1 - ONE
- reaction (thanx
Wolfgang!) asking for a different format: Word 6.0. So,
here I pose the question
again: What format? As I see it we have the following
options:
1. Plain ASCII/ANSI
2. Word 6.0
3. RTF
4. HTML
Personally I'd prefer Word or RTF, as the handling of such
a large document in
ASCII is a royal pain in the 'Most Esteemed' (as people say
in Germany).
Question is wether your mail-programs can handle it. So,
once again, please send
me a short note stating your preference, or maybe more
important, what your
mailer _cannot_ handle.
Have a nice weekend ye all,
Jan Willem Roberts
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