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Guy-

You've been threatening for months now to "give up on Metastock".  Are you
just venting your frustrations here or are you serious?  If so, what program
are you considering switching to?  The great thing about the Carerra is it
won't cause you to lose money......

Ron Scott



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Guy Tann
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 7:16 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Worked yesterday, not today


Lionel,

I'll recode this one more time tonight before giving up on MS.  It's just so
frustrating that something that should have taken a few days to a week at
most has already consumed 2 months.  Sort of like waiting for my Carerra 2's
engine to get resealed.  That's been in the shop for 2 months also.  "Maybe
next week."  Sort of like MS.

Regards,

Guy

" If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Lionel Issen
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 1:38 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Worked yesterday, not today

if is any consolation this has happened to me in the past, when I cut and
pasted a formula and it didn't work, but retyping it did work. Of course my
application was much simpler than yours.
Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Tann" <grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:56 PM
Subject: RE: Worked yesterday, not today


> Michael,
>
> I'll try anything.  I have done this in the past with other indicators,
but
> didn't try this yesterday.  I guess I was too frustrated, to say the
least.
> I'm at a loss as to how copying and pasting can add invisible characters,
> but I'll retype the variables.  I hope you're right because that would be
an
> easy fix.
>
> Regards,
>
> Guy
>
> " If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of michael
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:19 AM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Worked yesterday, not today
>
> >From you many posts of problems, I wonder if you are getting "invisable
> characters" in your formulas.  You have all of the symtoms.  When
frequently
> using the copy and paste features of windows, sometimes invisable
characters
> get into your formulas and screw them up.
>
> Try deleting all of the text in you formula and keep deleting until you
are
> certain that all characters, even the invisible ones are gone.  Then
retype
> the formula by hand.  If it works, then invisable characters were the most
> likely culprat.
>
> Hope this Helps,
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Guy Tann
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:22 AM
> To: Metastock User Group
> Subject: Worked yesterday, not today
>
>
> List,
>
> Well, I've fought my way through all of my indicators, right down to the
> final 8.  Number 7 and 8 worked yesterday, albeit slowly.  Today I tried
> moving indicator 8 in with 7 (via cutting and pasting) and then ran
another
> test, just to see if they continued to work.  Just my paranoia about MS
> working overtime and growing day-by-day. :)
>
> Anyway, they didn't work.  Surprise!  Well, I thought I'd take another
step
> back and cut and paste them back into their own indicators again and see
> what happened.  That didn't work either.  They both worked on Tuesday in
> their individual indicators and don't work anymore as of Wednesday.  I've
> done everything I could think of.  I made sure all of the extra parens
were
> there.  I made sure that I didn't split any lines of any function name
> within the variable.  I had no references to any plots, just the two
> variables.
>
> Anyway, I'm too tired to play with them tonight, so I'll start again
> tomorrow after taking the prodigal son to the school bus at 7AM and the
> Tibetan Terriers to the groomers at 8AM.
>
> Darn, but all of this work makes me wonder whether this MS conversion is
> really worth it.  I can add this to my Excel spreadsheet in a day or two
as
> opposed to the two months I've wasted so far.  I'm really starting to get
> frustrated and discouraged, which means I need a little sleep, so it's off
> to bed as it's 12:30AM and I have to be up at 6.
>
> Guy
>
> " If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
>
>
>
>