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Dusant,
You might see from one of my other posts that I managed to solve the
problem. The fault lies with Equis. In "The DownLoader - User's
Manual", "Creating Custom Symbol Lists for the Symbol Database", they
specify that symbol files must be stored in:
..\Program Files\Equis\The DownLoader
There are, indeed, symbol files in that directory. But they are not
seen by the program. The program looks in:
..\Program Files\MetaStock\The DownLoader
However, it's nice to know that one of the established gurus on this
newsgroup not only makes mistakes, but admits to them in order to
assist other people.
Regards,
Alan
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dusant" <dusant@xxxx> wrote:
> Alan,
> Once I had this "problem" earlier, and I had made a very silly
mistake.
> The steps which I had followed were,
> a.. create new security
> b.. click the look up button
> c.. the symbol list showed up
> d.. I neglected to scroll up in the drop down symbol list
selection
> Other than that, I see no reason why it should not show.
> This mystery can either be solved by Richard, who's good at these
things or MS support.
> Dusant
> Chief Architect
> http://www.candlestrength.com/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Davidson" <alan_davidson22@xxxx>
> To: <equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 12:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [EquisMetaStock Group] New Symbol Database file
doesn't appear in list
>
>
> > Dusant,
> >
> > I can see that the file is correctly named when I look in:
> > C:\Program Files\Equis\The DownLoader
> >
> > As a test, I copied Nasdaq100.sym (which appears in the "Type"
> > dropdown) to Nasdaq100_02.sym
> >
> > I then closed and re-opened the DownLoader. The renamed file
does
> > not appear in the "Type" list.
> >
> > In summary, anything I create manually does not appear in the
list.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > --- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dusant" <dusant@xxxx>
wrote:
> > > Alan,
> > > I think that your file would have been renamed as xxx.sym.txt
> > because of the windows nature of hiding the extensions of known
file
> > types. You have two alternatives.
> > > 1) open the file again, and save it as "xxx.sym" taking care
that
> > you use the quotation marks.
> > > 2) use the DOS prompt, and rename the xxx.sym.txt as xxx.sym.
> > >
> > > That should do the trick.
> > > Dusant
> > > Chief Architect
> > > http://www.candlestrength.com/
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alan Davidson" <alan_davidson22@xxxx>
> > > To: <equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 3:46 PM
> > > Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] New Symbol Database file
doesn't
> > appear in list
> > >
> > >
> > > > I created an ASCII file containing a list of symbols. The
file
> > does
> > > > not appear in the "Type" dropdown in the Symbol Database.
> > > >
> > > > Here's what I did:
> > > >
> > > > 1) Ensure Downloader is closed.
> > > > 2) In Notepad, created the list of symbols, separated by
> > carriage
> > > > returns.
> > > > 3) Save as .TXT
> > > > 4) Rename to .SYM
> > > > 5) Move to C:\Program Files\Equis\The Downloader
> > > > 6) Open the Symbol Database. No new file.
> > > >
> > > > Please advise,
> > > > Alan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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