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CMA writes:
> Thanks to Ton Maas and Zvi for suggestions. Equis says to check
> "Create New Files", but this doesn't work, since it creates new
> folders with one day's data, instead of appending the data.
> So far no combination of choices in the Destination Option tab has
> been able to do it. The only result is an attempt to update a
> nonexistent destination folder called c:\equis\A\sourcefile.txt
> After 4 emails to Equis tech support, it is clear to me that Equis
> doesn't have a clue on how to update multiple data directories.
> Has anyone actually been able to do it?
> Any suggestions for a replacement for the Downloader, a program
> which can update multiple directories?
I used to update multiple dirs nightly, using multiple input files.
Here was my setup:
files:
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c:\invest\a.dat
c:\invest\b.dat
...
c:\invest\indexes.dat
subdirs:
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c:\invest\A\
c:\invest\B\
c:\invest\C\
...
c:\invest\indexes\
I was converting ascii to metastock. The files were named the same as
the subdirs strictly as a convenience; they needn't be named the same.
In the downloader, I used "c:\invest\*.dat" as the input filename. Do
*NOT* "traverse directories" in the source tab. *DO* "traverse
directories" in the destination tab.
It worked fine, though the downloader is dog-slow. If I recall
correctly, I had to "seed" the subdirs first; in other words, I had to
put at least one days worth of data for each security I was updating in
the correct directory. I'm not sure if that was required or for some
other reason. It's been quite a long time since I did it, but it _did_
work.
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