Re: 1/3/2000 data

[lissen@xxxxxxx]

Alain:

This is the sort of mess in standards that our government needs to assist
in correcting.   Concerning standards, Herbert Hoover was probably the only
secretary of commerce to use his office to simplify and reduce the number
of unnecessary product variations in many areas.  That our light bulbs will
fit any receptacle is due to his efforts back in the 1920's. These efforts
benefited both industry and the consumer.  Many secretaries of commerce
since then have been small minded political hacks.  Herbert Hoover
developed the concept of the voluntary standards system in this country.
This got around the limitation that  the Feds had no legal authority to
impose standards, while at the same time developing a consensus standard.

I thought there was a law passed in the early 1950's that requires a vendor
to sell his product  to any purchaser under the same conditions as they
sell to any other purchaser.  This was in a Federal law banning so-called
fair trade laws (they were really unfair trade laws).

Thanks for enlightening me on the problem.

Regards

Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alain Jossart" <Alain.Jossart@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ""Equis Support"" <support@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: 1/3/2000 data


>
> Lionel,
>
> Same problem here, but the technical issue if not for Equis support. Let
me
> explain.
>
> Quote Plus isn't an agreed data vendor (as ... see Downloader list). They
> even cannot buy the Write version of Equis Developer Kit. They had
> therefore to kind of reverse engineer the Equis Year2000 date encoding.
It
> seems this trial/error approach was not completely successful. But this
was
> to be expected.
>
> This is a commercial matter at first place. Metastock/Computrac 255
sec/dir
> was a de facto universal database standard till 31 Dec 1999. Everybody
knew
> it was dead end.  Equis decided to not make public their Year2000
> modifications to the format => THE STANDARD IS GONE !
>
> I don't understand the competitive advantage of playing secret games
about
> a data format. It's the kind of evidence Reuters/Equis or Omega research
> won't even read, anyway.
>
> Alain.
>
> At 21:08 5/1/2000 -0600, lissen@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >I am having a problem with Quotes Plus.  I missed Monday's (Jan 3)
> >download.  When I downloaded on Tuesday (Jan 4) one full directory was
not
> >updated and one partial directory was not updated.  Additionally both
Jan 3
> >and 4 data was marked as 1900 instead of 2000 in the File, Open
spreadsheet
> >(but in the correct position). When I opened one of the charts the data
was
> >correctly shown as Jan 3 or 4 , 2000.
> >
> >I am using V 6.52
> >
> >Any suggestions on how to fix this?
> >Anyone else have this problem?
> >
> >Lionel Issen
> >lissen@xxxxxxxxx
> >
>
>