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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=950001716-29091999>I use
Quotes Plus to get EOD data and then their software to transfer data to the
Metastock format. They will transfer the same stock data multiple times if it
exists in different folders.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=950001716-29091999>However this data they have is from the American
markets, for Australian data you would need something similar. I do not know
what format the QPS data is in. Suggest you email them and ask them for
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From: "Lars Andersson" <Lars.Andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Cycling through Charts
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 06:58:19 -0700
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You can´t update duplicate files. I asked Equis about that earlier
this year and they answer it is impossible to do that. The only way to
do it is to convert the file twice one for each directory.
<br>Yours Sincerly.
<br>Lars Andersson
<p>Kornberg Family wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> <span
class=140184011-28091999><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Hi,</font></font></span><span
class=140184011-28091999></span><span class=140184011-28091999><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Yesterday
I wrote re: suggestions about cycling through charts placed in a number
of subdirectories names a, b, c, etc.</font></font></span><span
class=140184011-28091999></span><span class=140184011-28091999><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>In
the end, it became apparent that the best way to cycle through charts that
make up </span><span class=140184011-28091999>the DOW or the index
of the Australian market</span><span class=140184011-28091999>, would be
to copy the relevant data files to a separate directory c</span><span
class=140184011-28091999>alled
ASX150 or something like that. Thus, </span><span class=140184011-28091999>I
would then open th</span><span
class=140184011-28091999>at directory and
then cycle through each chart. Simple, although inefficient as I
wanted to have the data files in the a, b, c, </span><span class=140184011-28091999>subdirectories
as well</span><span
class=140184011-28091999>, otherwise I would need
to re</span><span class=140184011-28091999>member the names in the ASX150
directory if I wanted to look a</span><span
class=140184011-28091999>t
one chart - simpler if </span><span class=140184011-28091999>under
the first letter.</font></font></span><span class=140184011-28091999></span><span class=140184011-28091999></span><span
class=140184011-28091999></span><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I<span
class=140184011-28091999>
then copie</span><span
class=140184011-28091999>d each data file and tonight </span><span class=140184011-28091999>my </span><span class=140184011-28091999>nightly
download came down. I up</span><span
class=140184011-28091999>dated
my files as per usual by a metastock convert </span><span class=140184011-28091999>ascii
to Metastock with it traversing </span><span
class=140184011-28091999>the
subdirectory as is usual. Guess what - the data files in the a, b,
c, were updated but the same </span><span class=140184011-28091999>data
files in the ASX150 subdirectory (same level as a, b, c etc) were not updated! </font></font></span><span class=140184011-28091999></span><span class=140184011-28091999><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Any
suggestions as how I can get the downloader to update duplicate data files
in different subdirectories?</font></font></span><span
class=140184011-28091999></span><span
class=140184011-28091999><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Thanks,</font></font></span><span class=140184011-28091999>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Andrew Kornberg</font></font></span></blockquote>
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From: "joe zilaitis" <jzilaiti@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Cycling through Charts
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:36:35 -0400
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That is what I do and it works fine with EOD 6.5. Just more disk space and
time...and I got plenty of both.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Kormanik <nkormanik@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 12:33 PM
Subject: RE: Cycling through Charts
>"You can't update duplicate files....."
>
>As long as those files are in different subdirectories, I think you can.
At
>least I've been doing this for some time. There is redundancy, and hard
>disk space waste, but I wanted certain stocks in a 'special' place to cycle
>through easily --- however I also wanted to keep them in the 'big' groups.
>The approach I took, thus, was to just duplicate.
>
>If there is enough disk space, and you have a fast data download process,
it
>may be easier to just download all the data 'on the fly' to a new
>subdirectory for a new short list of securities you want to cycle through.
>
>MetaStock v. 7 is supposed to make this challenge easier.
>
>Nicholas
>
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