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I've never fooled with the market holidays and as near as I could tell, the
holiday list in the access database is useless. Why else would the SC downloader
call for data downloads on holidays. I'm off to TradeLab when it's released.

Earl

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Parsons <richard.p.parsons@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, August 09, 1998 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Mixing Programs


>
>I have been disappointed with SC4 for the following reasons;
>
>1. I cannot find a way to edit market holidays. If you turns off intraday
>holidays you loses the ability to maintain the time axis when data is
>infrequent. With SC2 displaying intraday data, only one price for a trading
>period is needed to maintain time space on a chart. With SC4 each time stamp
>without a price becomes a holiday.
>
>2. On my 200 Mhz machine SC4 takes twice as long to load as SC2.
>
>3. I have found no benefit over SC2 except for the QuickOptions program.
>
>I shall be sorry to give up SC2 in 2000.<g>
>
>To enable me to run both SC2 and SC4 on the same machine I have edited every
>reference to supercharts in the .exe file and renamed it schartz.exe. Also,
>I have renamed the .ini file in the Windows directory.
>
>I can only run one version at a time but that suits me fine.............!
>
>Earl, if you could help me sort out the market holidays I should be
>grateful.
>
>Rgds
>
>Richard
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Earl Adamy <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: 05 August 1998 21:38
>Subject: Re: Mixing Programs
>
>
>>Can't say regarding TS but I can say that SC4 and SC2 will not be allowed
>by
>>Omega to co-exist peacefully unless you go though a painstaking process of
>>backing SC2 to off-line backup (any online copies will be found by Omega
>install
>>and disabled), backing up the \windows directory, installing SC4, restoring
>SC2,
>>analyzing the changed files in the \windows directory and then writing a
>script
>>to swap files in the \windows directory. Been there, done that, and made it
>>work - only way I could preserve the EL capabilities in SC2 which were
>disabled
>>in SC3/4. Bottom line is that it's beyond the capabilities of any but the
>most
>>technically proficient.
>>
>>Earl
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Donald Thompson <detomps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 1:18 PM
>>Subject: Mixing Programs
>>
>>
>>>Omega experts.
>>>
>>>Is there going to be a problem intalling SC 4.0 and or TS 3.5 in a
>>>separate directory from SC 2.0?
>>>
>>>If so should I place SC 4.0 in a new directory after hiding SC 2.0 on
>>>another drive.  Then put SC 2.0 back in its origial directory?
>>>
>>>I use windows 95.
>>>
>>>Thanks for your advise and experience.
>>>
>>>Don Thompson
>>>
>>
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