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I just attended the Microsoft's seminar on Office 2000 and its Word program
and Outlook applications will be using HTML in their documentation, e-mail
and of course Internet. It appeared to me that this format is probably going
to be more widely used in the near future.
My suggestion is to consider planning for ease of interface to files using
this format.
John Sellers
Torrance, CA
USA
-----Original Message-----
From: UG <ug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Daniel Martinez
<DanM@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: QP2
>
>A couple of editorial notes on your email. First and foremost, thanks
>for the input; I just ordered QP2, and am looking for any and all
>information I can have on it; good *and* bad. Thanks!
>
>Secondly, as you might guess from my email, I'm a unix guy. Bigot, some
>might say. I find it absolutely amazing that anyone should accept
>having to reboot a machine _DAILY_. Some people even seem to think that
>it's *SUPPOSED* to be that way! Vote for quality, folks. If you don't
>want to use a stable OS, don't. If you need to use Windows, and I'm in
>that camp, tell Microsoft to fix what they have before they start adding
>all these "gee-whiz" new featuers to every release.
>
>And lastly, and I'm throwing myself at your mercy here, unless there's
>some compelling NEED to use HTML-mail on a mailing list, please don't.
>On mailing lists, there are a lot of people reading the email with a lot
>of different systems. I'm on a unix shell account using a reader which
>doesn't render HTML for me, I know of people who have the mail sent to
>their alpha-pagers which don't either. And how about those of use who
>might read this email on their Palm-Pilots? Unless they install the
>web-app there which takes a lot of precious memory, they won't be able
>to render it either.
>
>I didn't find anything in your email which NEEDED the markup
>capabilities of HTML. What I *did* find was a lot of <...>'s that had 0
>content.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>Daniel Martinez writes:
>> <HTML>
>> I have been using QP2 since it first came out in 6/98 and it has worked
>> well for me. They have an optional virtual program which allows
Metastock
>> to transparently access their database via empty files (their "virtual"
>> folders). This way, you don't have to maintain 2 separate databases
>> and QP2 automatically maintains its own database. Their software
>> is well written. I do have some advice though:
>> <LI>
>> <B>Maintaining your database is your most important task.</B> While
>> your download time is quick (2 minutes via 28.8K), your drive will be
working
>> for a number of minutes afterwards. I always download immediately
>> after booting up. If you have been working on your computer on
something
>> else, particularly using Java in your browser, reboot. You want
your
>> computer to be as stable as possible during your database update.
>> You also might want to do a scandisk just before your download. If
>> you do get a crash during your update, you can simply use the QP2 update
>> database command. I have only crashed 3 times out of almost 100
downloads.</LI>
>>
>> <LI>
>> <B>One thing about QP2 is that you may find errors in their
database.</B>
>> Because I use Metastock, it's easy to spot errors in the price
charts.
>> Unfortunately, it's not so easy to find errors in the breadth
charts.
>> If there are missing dates in the advances, decliners for stocks or
volume,
>> Metastock will give you erroneous charts. The Arms Index is
particularly
>> vulnerable. While you can probably confirm your Arms index for the
>> NYSE, I have yet to see McClellan Oscillator, Summation, or Arms data for
>> the Nasdaq. If anyone can tell me where I can find this data for
>> the Nasdaq on the web, please LMK. You may want to periodically
open
>> your composite Advancers/Decliners for Stocks and volume in the
Downloader
>> and verify that the number of records are equal. If they aren't,
>> dates are missing in the database.</LI>
>>
>> <LI>
>> If you do find errors in the QP2 database, <B>you can email their data
>> dept at annette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</B> . They have always been quick
>> to correct their errors.</LI>
>>
>>
>> <P>Daniel.
>> <BR>
>> <BR>
>>
>> <P>Bob Wiseman wrote:
>> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Please let me know. I've been Telescam-ed too
>> often and am about to
>> <BR>switch. Thanx...Bob
>>
>> <P>UG wrote:
>> <BR>> Well, I just signed up, based on a few things I've heard on the
list
>> <BR>> here. I'll let you know how it goes if anyone's
interested.</BLOCKQUOTE>
>> </HTML>
>
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>keep them
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