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John and other Listers,
please find below a copy of my "corrective" mail send on earlier to Lionel.
Again, excuses for not being clear enough, that I was NOT refering to MacroScheduler,
wich program, from your scripts, looks a lot more appropiate+managable for a wide
variaty of daily returning Automation jobs.
Thanks for sending both your examples+explainations(ever very helpful and detailed).
All very "logic"(digitaly that is).
A must for the everyday Metastock user(or any other programs for that matter).
Newbies(like myselve) will have to practice and learn, but too, can greatly benifit from
the end-results, when the scripts are "final", much like the MSformula language.
If you want a more extensive PRO-version then ClockMan95(includes the widest
user-friendly-helpfiles known), a TRUE 100% Win95-Automater, is your best bet.
(not only because of its use of the WIL-Windows Interface Language and
the AA-Automated Assistants, special instructed auto-helpers, wich AA's also includes
one especialy for the Downloader-Dialing auto to providers).
Regards,
Ton Maas.
Ms-IRB@xxxxxxxxx
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Hello Lionel,
Sorry, but correct, I did not point out clearly that I was refering to the
Automate program.
Also, perhaps I should have mentioned my complete lack of experience
with these type of one-cannot-control-programs. And futhermore, I don't
have years to spare to figure out their incomplete help-files, if they ever
include any!.
Thats why, thanks to the everywhere used free-/shareware programs, my
computers' BIN is the favourite hangout for these type of aggrevating trash.
In the back of my mind, I "connected" its commands usage with f.i. Metsastocks'
formula-language-commands, or the old DOS-batch commands, wich at first
is acacadabra too, but whilst using, practicing and experiencing with, thanks to
the extensive availabbility of on/off-line help-support-files, manuals and books,
one is able to sort it out(within a not so "reasonable" time-span) and can then
be "easely"(?!?!?!?), nothing is easy, learned and applied(when finaly correct).
Difference:
The difference in outcome between going adventuring the above and Automate
is that Automate is for humans un-control-able and worst that can happen, is that
what I mentioned in the mail, a complete destruction/vanishing of disc's contents.
The worst that can happen whilst "adventuring" MS's formula language
is the program to "crash"(=harmless) and when restarted it always correctly returns,
apart then from the 4x files, the anoying and superfluous "no admittance" to your
data-files(dat,dop), being program created in the last attended, before the crash,
working-folder. Useless and very irritating anoying files.
If you do not delete these files, by either re-starting the last CORRECT Metastock
program used(e.g. MSwin or DLwin) , or by "manually" deleting them, then other
"third party" programs are blocked from entering the Metastock Data-files
(master,emaster,dat,dop), f.i. for daily data updating.
I make use of a separate DOS-convertor, supplied by my data provider.
In this case, the presence of the 4 above mentioned, somehow very "active" files,
prefents the convertor from daily data-updating, e.g. either error-messages
are returned with "cannot find the adress to update" or, when run in the background,
a long conversion report is always made incl. the errors, wich are then logged to
a file, a file wich one heartly ever looks at and any of the error-warnings are then not
normaly(daily) noticed.
This also explains why some days are not (and not noticed directly) updated,
leaving caps in the charts' time-data(x-axis).
Although the last bit above is not Automate related, I thought it to be of intrest, in
combination with the fact, that we humans darn well right are capable to know what
goes on behind the program-scenes, for me at least enough to repair there where
things can go wrong, and this goes up for the normal everyday usable programs.
Metastock is, but Automate is definitly not one of them.
Regards,
Ton Maas
Ms-IRB@xxxxxxxxx
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Van: Lionel Issen <lissen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Aan: A.J. Maas <anthmaas@xxxxxx>
Datum: zondag 31 mei 1998 20:22
Onderwerp: Re: Another automation product. Answer: NO THANKS, along with virusses, NEITHER OF THEM!!!!
>Ton Maas:
>
>I am having a little difficulty following your posting.
>
>Are you referring to Automate as being a destructive program or to
>Microscheduler?
>
>If I had your experience having all my carefully collected records
>destroyed, I would be as frustrated and aggravated as you are.
>
>Lionel
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