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Robyn, I'm afraid you are right. OMEGA obviously realised soon after
releasing SuperCharts that it was too good. If you really want to go on
using SC after Y2K you'll have to take a couple years of the dates in your
data files. You should be able to do this in MSExcel.
I use Metastock Downloader v.5.11 for EOD equity prices. I can't get either
SC or Metastock to read a metastock data file with '00' for the year.
Omega's advert, that a Shetland Pony compares to a Race Horse as Metastock
compares to SuperCharts, is absolutely correct <g>. My daily data file of
the Dow Jones Industrials from 1900 will not even load into Metastock (only
7000 lines of data), SuperCharts has no problem, except that it cannot read
'00'.
These software vendors must start telling us how to address the problem or
is there anyone out there who can suggest a 'work around'. Else, a lot of
good software is going to be useless.
Richard Parsons
-----Original Message-----
From: greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Richard Parsons <richard.p.parsons@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12 January 1998 21:01
Subject: Re: SuperCharts V.2.x
>> <<As one who uses SuperCharts V.2.0 every day I am sure that Omega
research
>> will be delighted to sell me an upgrade to address the Y2K problem in two
>> years time. Check it out for yourself:>>
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>Well - I'd been putting it off too long - so I gave the Y2K data a whirl.
>You're right - SuperCharts can't read it. However - my even more ancient
>version of MetaStock can read it. It doesn't make the transition from 1999
to
>2000 - so I suspect it's reading 2000 as 1900 - but that's better than not
>reading 2000 at all.
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>Note that I am using data in Metastock format from files which are
downloaded
>with the Equis downloader - and stored in Metastock. I wonder if anyone
gets
>better results using data in any other way, shape or form. Perhaps other
people
>here can run some tests.
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>BTW - I'm not sure that Omega will do anything to help us old SuperCharts
>users. All they really want us to do is upgrade to Tradestation <g> (for
>lurkers who aren't familiar with the history - the older versions of
SuperCharts
>have almost complete EL programming capabilities - later versions were
>crippled). Robyn
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