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CMA:
This problem has been around since the 1st version of MS. About a year or
year and a half ago there was an active discussion of the shortcomings of
the Downloader and MSWIN, most of which have not been fixed.
Lionel
-----Original Message-----
From: CMA <cma6@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Metastock Digest <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 9:49 PM
Subject: Traversing subdirectories with Downloader
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>It's nice to see that Equis is working on a patch for the
>Euroconversion, but it has been 2 months since the most basic problem
>of all with Downloader was aired on this list: you cannot update
>securities across more than one data subdirectory with the Downloader.
> That makes Downloader virtually worthless to most users, since most
>have more than one data subdirectory.
> How are we supposed to update our data subdirectories--manually for
>1000 securities, I suppose?
> Equis first claimed there was no problem, then acknowledged it,
>then finally dismissed the problem as a minor glitch and promised to
>fix it at some future indefinte time.
> Well it is not a minor glitch, so users beware. Downloader is
>practically useless till it is fixed.
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