Importing data by hand

[Barry Kaufman <102577.325@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are about 30 weekly market indexes that I get from Barrons and enter 
into a flat file format with my ASCII text editor.  These aren't available to 
be downloaded electronically.  I want to be able to automatically update my 
data directory with these each week.  The method of ASCII importing these via 
the Omega DownLoader is too cumbersome because it appears that it has to be 
done one symbol at a time.  Correct me if I am wrong.

On the other hand, it appears that the DownLoader will batch load a Metastock 
formatted group of symbols.  It may do this for other non-ASCII data formats
as well.  I am a programmer and could write a utility to convert my flat file 
ASCII format to Metastock or other format, that is if I had the Metastock 
format specifications.  It looks like a Metastock data directory has MASTER 
and EMASTER files, as well as a .DOP and a .DAT file for each symbol.

Any help would be appreciated on a data format specification, or code that 
reads the data format, or even an undocumented trick to batch import ASCII 
format data into the DownLoader.  Or, is there a way to update the Omega data 
files directly without using the DownLoader?

Thanks, Barry.