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Re: CONTINUOUS FILE UTILITY!!!



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Oscar:

For what it's worth, Quattro Pro 9 can apparently handle a couple million
rows of data.  Unfortunately, Quattro Pro cannot create comma-delimited
files (at least Ver. 7 can't, and Corel has not responded to my question
about Ver. 9), only tab-delimited files.

Good luck.


----- Original Message -----
From: <oscbren@xxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: September 29, 1999 08:53
Subject: CONTINUOUS FILE UTILITY!!!

> I'm desperately looking for a software/utility that is able to create
> continuous files starting from tick by tick contract files.
> It should allow the user to input the dates of the rollovers and the
> adjusting factor to apply to previous contracts to eliminate rollover
> gaps. Excel files cannot handle more that 65536 rows of data so I can't
> open tick-by-tick files without losing data!
> Equis Downloader maybe presents the same problem and isn't able to
> adjust prices (adding/substracting gaps)!
> All that should be based on ascii format.
> There is plenty of complex technical analysis softwares but as far as I
> know there isn't a simple utility like the one described above!!! I
> really hope to be disproved by anyone's suggestion.
> How do you solve the need to create continuous files for system testing?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Best Rgds
> Oscar B.