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The header should definitely be in place, but needs to look like this
<ticker>,<per>,<date>,<open>,<high>,<low>,<close>,<vol>,<o/i>
You had <volume> and not <vol>
You also must upgrade to version 6.52 from 6.51, you can download the patch
from http://www.equis.com/customer/support/files/updates.html
the file name will be up652sig.exe or up652bmi.exe, depending on who your
data provider is.
Lynn
Equis Support
http://www.equis.com/
http://www.equis.com/customer/support/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Andrews [mailto:shawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 1:16 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ASCII to Metastock file data transfer
Zarifis Dimitroulis wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I have been trying to convert an ASCII file to Metastock format and I
> have been having a very hard time, though this may sound a bit strange.
> I am using Metastock 6.51. Please bear with me and if there's a good
> Samaritan I would appreciate a hand.
>
> This is how it is: There is a file named BNTI.TXT
>
> <ticker>,<per>,<date>,<open>,<high>,<low>,<close>,<volume>,<o/i>
> BNTI,D,990129,0.230,0.260,0.220,0.240,20250,0
> BNTI,D,990201,0.240,0.240,0.220,0.220,23300,0
> BNTI,D,990202,0.250,0.260,0.240,0.240,48500,0
>
> I go to The DownLoader->Tools->Convert->
> File Type: ASCII, Text File Name BNTI.TXT
> Destination File Type: Metastock, Folder C:\EQUIS\METASTOCK DATA\TEMP
> --> OK
>
> Then I get: Status conversion Errors occured
>
> Error: #2053 Unable to start new destination file
> Error: #2999 (-367) Unrecognized Error
>
> I played a little with date formats, headers, symbol....Nada...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Email me privately. Thanks a lot
> Zarifis Dimitroulis
> zarifis@xxxxxxxxx
Simply remove the header line
"<ticker>,<per>,<date>,<open>,<high>,<low>,<close>,<volume>,<o/i>"
I had this same problem when I was using Metastock 6.52
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