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Carroll,
Thanks for the description. Hard to understand why they actually ask money
for it if it's in such a condition. Anyway, could you tell if the "DDE
conversations" are useful or do they just get real-time ticks through to a
DDE link?
At 12:07 PM 4/3/98 -0800, Carroll Slemaker wrote:
>First, with respect to Omega's Server API - I purchased this and it is
>not, as one might expect, a collection of canned procedures or functions
>which you can call to retrieve data from the database. It is a
>specification of DDE "conversations" which can be established to do
>this. Unfortunately, the "spec" looks like a document which was written
>for internal use only; it is grossly incomplete and seems to assume
>knowledge of matters and terminology NOT addressed within the spec
>itself.
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>This is a problem which I have been fighting for years (looking for a
>way to conveniently archive intraday data in ASCII form). What I have
>devised is the following: I have created an "archive" page (or
>"workspace") containing a small chart for each symbol to be saved. Each
>chart then contains an "indicator" which does nothing but write the
>desired data to an ASCII file (a different file name, of course, for
>each chart). I then open this workspace once every three days to save
>three-days worth of data.
>
>Carroll Slemaker
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