Re: ASCII tick date not read by TS4

[CwWaring@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 98-07-03 23:11:14 EDT, tosk@xxxxxxx writes:

> F1.dat
>  F1.dop
>  master
>  TS is able to "see" them in the insert-price data- ascii files in
>  c:\tick\sp 
>  I select F1.dat 
>  TS then pops up a field order screen, I select Dop File
>  
>  acsii data file error screen pops up >>
>  
>  CW:
>  dat and dop files are not ASCII - they are MetaStock/CompuTrac files.
>  
>  Tom Lisk
>  You may need to create a new file type for that directory, eg metastock
files in c:\tick\sp.  (presuming these are metastock files).

If they are not metastock files, could you post the file 2 lines of each file
here, so we can see what the data looks like. Peter Ryan

thats METASTOCK format - it should work - TRY the other choices - I had it
before 
- think it is - "FIRST ROW OF DATA" (or so) - it will work

rgds hans
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 Thanks All.  I did try all of the above with no luck.  
I have rerun the Tickdata, Inc. software to consolidate their data into a
continous contract with the same output, format selection=Omega/Tradestation 
I get an error code 63 which puts me into an endless loop when I select no for
finished? Y/N.  Really... Bushleague Stuff.

So, I rerun Ticksoft now asking to output into the ASCII format and it produce
a file called SP-U97.prn.  

I create a new chart window-insertprice data, select the sp-u97.prn file, the
field order screen pops up and I select "first line of data file". 
This works. 
I get a listing of the first dozen or so lines.  I am asked to verify that the
field order matches.  It does match the data.  I was able to see it scroll
during the assemby of the file. 
06/02/97,08:35,"SP-U97",862.50,862.50,861.50,861.70,      9
06/02/97,08:40,"SP-U97",861.00,861.70,861.00,861.70,      5
06/02/97,08:45,"SP-U97",862.00,862.30,861.70,861.70,      6
06/02/97,08:50,"SP-U97",861.45,861.45,861.10,861.10,      2
06/02/97,08:55,"SP-U97",860.35,860.70,860.00,860.00,      7
06/02/97,09:00,"SP-U97",860.10,860.10,859.40,859.50,      8
06/02/97,09:05,"SP-U97",858.70,858.70,858.20,858.20,      3
06/02/97,09:10,"SP-U97",857.60,857.60,855.80,856.00,      5

Happily, I select the "done" bar only to get the next problem- a Trade
statioon message that says "invalid date".

Nowhere to go.

Any Ideas?  I may just take up drinking for the rest of this 4th.

Charlie "100 degrees Farenheit in Dallas" Waring