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Janene,
Your reminder is wrong at 2 places :
(1) The 2000 s/d capability was not added "around the Y2K time". It was
introduced with Metastock 6.0, ie the very first release for Windows 95
(Win32).
(2) There are 4 MSFL licenses : read-only / read-write - personal use /
business use
Alain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janene" <janene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: QP2 Directory limitation -- Janene
> Dan,
> The Metastock format that has 255 symbols per directory has been used by
> several companies for a long time. This is because Metastock started
using
> it after another company that was using it went out of business. That
meant
> everyone could use it. This is part of the reason so many programs used
the
> Metastock format. When Metastock went to having 2000 symbols per
directory,
> this changed. They did this around the Y2K time. So their new format was
> Y2K compatible and the old one was not. We were able to adjust the old
> format to work after Y2K. The old format was freely available, so editing
> was easy. The new format is not freely available. I am not sure about
all
> of the details. They sell their license as read-only fairly readily, but
> that does not help us. We cannot work around this and will be using the
> format that has 255 symbols. Thanks to Michael and Michel for their
> perspective. I do not think everyone realizes the history of where this
> stuff came from or why so many programs us the Metastock format.
>
> Janene
>
> janene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Quotes Plus Tech Support
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan" <dcash@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:33 PM
> Subject: QP2 Directory limitation -- Janene
>
>
> > With the talk of file number limitations of 255, I would like to ask
you,
> Janene,
> > more about this as this is the major reason I have not switched from
Dial
> Data. In a
> > conversation I had with someone at QP a number of months ago, I was told
> that it is a
> > problem at the Metastock end; that it has something to do with Equis
not
> supporting
> > your ability to download into directories with more than 255. Please
> flesh out this
> > problem. Is it that Equis allows DD, Reuters (obviously), etc. and will
> not
> > cooperate with QP? What is the status to have this changed? Is there
any
> > conversation between the two of you? Why is Equis not cooperating?
> Cannot you
> > program around this from your end? Why does Equis have to have a say?
> >
> > I would appreciate insight and not just a superficial answer, as I, and
I
> bet others
> > would like to have some background.
> >
> > There is absolutely no possibility of me switching to Reuters, or you as
I
> do not
> > like multiple directories to work from.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions around this?
> >
> > I appreciate that you are monitoring this list.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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