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Charlie,
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: CwWaring@xxxxxxx [mailto:CwWaring@xxxxxxx]
| Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 6:28 PM
| To: jimo@xxxxxxxxxx; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
| Cc: TechSupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Subject: Re: SPUroll.zip at www.eskimo.com
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| In a message dated 98-06-16 16:34:31 EDT, jimo@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
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| > CwWaring@xxxxxxx writes:
| > >> problem_description
| > >> I have downloaded a SP tick data zip file.
| > >> When unzipped it is made up of two files
| > >> *.idx and *.dat
| > >> Please tell me how to use these files or to paste them in?
| > >> Thanks Charlie WAring
| >
| > Charlie,
| >
| > There should be THREE files in that zip (I just looked, to
| confirm this).
| > The third file has no extension, and is 32 bytes long. It's a dummy
| > file used simply to hold a name. Somehow, your TS 4.0 should be able
| > to import this data, which was copied out of TS 3.5. Since I don't
| > use TS 4.0 myself, I can't give you step-by-step instructions, but
| > surely someone can. I can't believe that TS 4.0 is incapable of using
| > data copied out of TS 3.5. Unfortunately, the reverse process isn't
| > possible.
| >
| > To techsupport: the data is described in the accompanying .txt file.
| > If you provided the capability to import and export data into/out of
| > TS 4.0 without hiding it behind the .omz mask, I'd be willing to
| > upgrade from TS 3.5.
| >
| > Cheers,
| >
| > Jim
| >
| Thanks Jim
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| Well that will work. Once I moved them into TS\PASTE the scan
| could find the
| files. Can't find them in a different directory-don't know why
| they bother to
| scan.
| But I got as far as the conversion and stopped. I don't want to
| over write
| the current SPU8 data. Where will this data go? I may need to
| copy out and
| paste back in?
Once the conversion is done and you are pasting in, you specify what date
range to paste in, so you don't have to worry about your current SP8U data.
And the file Jim gave us just goes to 6/10/98, which is the last day before
the SP8U contract became the front month. So the idea here is to adjust the
SP8M data up to 6/10/98 (when it was the front month) to the SP8U data and
rename it as SP8U data, so that you have liquid, continuous data when you
start looking at SP8U. You do lose the "real" SP8U data before 6/11/98, but
that is the sparsely traded data that doesn't help you very much.
Neil
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| Tortuous process.
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| Neil- I think TICK DATA has a $40 piece of software to create
| continous but
| non-adjusted data, but I think it only works on their data? I
| don't know why
| TS doesn't provide that - I doesn't seem difficult and is the obvious
| requirement to test using the TS capabilities. But that another
| issue surely
| solved in TS 6.0
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