RE: Automate Downloader?

["Bob Jagow" <bjagow@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for jumping in, Jim.
  I redownloaded them last night after diddling the output with $line =
'#';.

  I hoped to copy *.prn both.prn  but had to add a mfund header so the
Downloader could read 'ticker,date,close'. The resulting separate input
files will need scripted input file selection for Downloader; am deciding
between WinBat and ScriptIt.

Bob
bjagow@xxxxxxx <mailto:bjagow@xxxxxxx>


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Michael
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 4:02 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Automate Downloader?



To put a # in front of your mf ticker using QM you can use the following
syntax:

$ticker = '#' . $ticker;

Since you may have both stocks and mf tickers, separate them and place a
qm script in each separate directory, e.g. \qm\mf, \qm\stocks,
\qm\indices, etc. The entire QM download file is only 15kb including
docs, so you don't have to be overly concerned with the space being used.
Now run all three scripts from a single batch file and you're done.

Cheers,

Jim

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Bob Jagow wrote:

>    QuoteMonster's advantage is that it uses a documented Perl script.
Easy
> enough to output the sharped symbol with it, but export of the existing
> files would give ASCII files with the [wrong] original symbols.
>    I will probably just redownload everything tonight.

> >   The Yahoo mf symbols gathered by QuoteMonster have only 5 characters
but
> > the MS mut fnd symbols have a prepended #.
> >
> > Suppose I could prepend a # on the fly -- any other workarounds?