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[Metastockusers] Re: AmiBroker vs MetaStock



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Currently not using MS.  Please confirm MS also creates a file for 
eahc symbol and touches all at end of day.  TC2000, which i am 
playing with seems to keep all symbols in a a few files.

--- In Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Bob Jagow" <bjagow@xxxx> 
wrote:
> ...and how do you think MetaStock stores them?
> <<One thing that sems strange is it stores each symbol's price data 
as
> a separate file which is amazingly inefficient on space ....>>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cowdude650 [mailto:cowdude650@x...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:24 AM
> To: Metastockusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Metastockusers] AmiBroker vs MetaStock
> 
> 
> Decided to check out AmiBroker despite some deliberate plants in 
this
> user group from AmiBroker pushers.  Anyway, there are parts of it
> that are interesting.  But has anyone spent a bunch of time with
> AmiBroker and then switched back?
> 
> One thing that sems strange is it stores each symbol's price data as
> a separate file which is amazingly inefficient on space and awkward
> because i would imagine, literally thousands of files could get
> touched at the end of the day on price updates.  I backup daily so
> waiting for my backups to complete would be painful as each of the
> thousands have to be written to my backup drive.
> 
> Thots
> 
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