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Ton
OK! I understand that I should get this download. I'm still confused about
the comment in the Equis instructions about if you don't use Reuters then
you should install this update in another directory and then go back and use
your old Downloader. Now that's assuming I read it correctly.
Regards
Guy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of A.J. Maas
> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 1998 4:39 AM
> To: Metastock-List
> Subject: Re: Euro conversion utility
>
>
> Well from "confusion" we get "confusion" so I have corrected
> below the just send
> out mail to the List, which mail can be deleted, if you have
> saved the other previously
> send mails with the above "Euro conversion utility" or "Re: Euro
> conversion utility" as
> their subject.
>
> Reg.
> Ton Maas
> ms-irb@xxxxxx
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------
>
> Hello Guy,
> same best wishes for Xmas+1999 to you (and all) too.
>
> Confused?
> Now thats a word to go with computing, and should be getting more
> attention
> from its makers. In this MicroSoft at their website, are making a
> hell of IMPROVEMENT
> over their previously "badly" maintained BBS's and help files(if
> they were available).
>
> Regarding the Downloader, if you are using a version prior to
> this upgrade, then:
>
> -you still have to obtain a "new" license(=FREE + incl. the SetUp
> Key no's) even if
> you are like myselve, a registred owner/user of the 'prior'
> version, to be able to
> properly install the new program, same like when upgrading from
> 6.0 to 6.5, as this
> upgrade is a full new program, not a patch.
> However, onces installed, you will find out that this "NEW"
> doesn't mean that
> the DL has been fully renewed or got a for the better overhaul
> to it. It -only- had 3x
> minor but vital adjustments made to it : the "Multi Adjust
> Tool", "YR2000-compliant"
> and a parameter function "Express Download" ONLY to be ADDED to it.
> -if you were using your current DL program to download prices from sources
> other then RTD(Reuters Trend Data), some sources like CompuServe or
> DialData or TeleScan etc., you should still download and
> install this upgrade, but
> now into another separate folder, if you should want to have a
> DL program to
> be YR2000 compliant and/or also if you should want to be able
> to very easely
> adjust your "Multi"-securities for the EURO conversion which is
> due next week.
> -if you were using your current DL program to download prices
> from RTD only,
> do install the new upgrade at all times
> -if you were not using your current DL to DOWNLOAD prices at all,
> but did use
> the DL's Convert Tool for your daily data files
> update-sessions, install the new
> upgrade by all means, as reasons for doing so are stated above.
>
> Hints for the EURO adjusting when using the DL's MultiSecs
> Adjusting for Splits Tool:
> -Always make a spare set of copies from your precious securities
> first before doing
> any adjusting, or :
> -Collect "identical" securities into an one single separate folder
>
> How:
> 1. By using the DL's Copy Tool, and with "identical" in this
> meaning all of the
> "currencies"-securities that need to be EURO-adjusted, to be
> 'spare'-copied to one
> single separate folder (eg C:\Temp\Currencies).
>
> 2. Then next, do the same for all of the "stock or index with
> volume"-securities, ofcourse
> then to another folder(eg C:\Temp\Volume).
>
> 3. And finaly, also for all of the "stock or index without
> volume"-securities to yet another
> separate folder(eg C:\Temp\Novolume).
>
> Later on, when succesfully finished conversioning, you can "copy"
> them back to their
> original folders, where they came from at first, by using the
> Copy Tool and applying
> the YES-button to any of the Copy-Dialogs Windows "overwrite
> original sec" questions.
>
> This way spare copies are automatically being made while you are
> "right in the Euro
> conversion process". Should you also wish to have a spare set for
> later reference, then
> copy your total set of securities folders to a floppy disk or to
> a folder C:\Temp\SpareMS.
>
> When using the DL's Multi-Adjust Tool, in its Multi Adjust Dialog
> Window, it will ask you
> to select the folder in which securities' contents need
> adjusting, then when this folder is
> provided(selected) it will present you with the Manual Adjust
> Dialog Window, previously
> already known in the DLv6.x programs as the Manual Adjust Tool's
> Dialog Window
> (DL6.x manual p.96), with the only difference in it now being
> also made available to
> adjust any of the real time data files.
>
> Best wishes
> Regards,
> Ton Maas
> ms-irb@xxxxxx
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Guy Tann <grtann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: zondag 27 december 1998 6:03
> Subject: RE: Euro conversion utility
>
>
> >Ton
> >
> >Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
> >
> >As a real Downloader owner and user, but not a Reuters Data
> user, should I
> >even bother to install this 6.52 version. It appears to say
> that I should
> >still use my 'old' version.
> >
> >Confused, but that's normal :).
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Guy
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