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List,
After a private discussion with the program's author,Bob Scott,I have
decided to offer a public notice that I will not be distributing his
Defrag program for TS2Ki any longer.
Apparently I misunderstood the following excerpt from a message dated
12/04/03 sent to me by him along with the latest version release of
the program,
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Quote-"This is the latest TS2Ki version and hopefully the last. Just Unzip the
attached file to any folder on your TS2ki PC and run the utility and it
should auto sense where TS2ki is installed and set up an INI file."
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The included documentation with the program also seems optimistic.
I have used the program successfully since the above release date
without any problems.
However it is my understanding that approximately a month after the release,a
trader who had close to 50,000 data files in his portfolio,had a GS crash.The
cause of this problem was undetermined,so it possibly was just a GS overload
thing.Nonetheless,Bob's Tick Compactor had been used on that machine in the
past and ........
Good trades to all,
Carl
Sunday, August 10, 2003, 11:45:22 PM, you wrote:
BS> Hi Guys,
BS> The Unfrag for TS2ki mentioned was an initial attempt at a start of an
BS> Unfrag for Ts2ki. Since I found lots of people that were interested in the
BS> program but none that wanted to assist me in going through the development
BS> pains to make it a real program, I dropped development. The version of
BS> Unfrag for TS2ki that exists does not defrag the databases as Unfrag for TS4
BS> does. This was an initial program starter that only releases the unused DAT
BS> file space and I got so few responses to this initial program that even this
BS> part was not confirmed to work correctly in all cases. Anyhow, with no user
BS> feedback I dropped program development due to lack of interest. In short,
BS> it is not advised to use the existing version of the Unfrag for TS2ki.
BS> The only way to properly defrag the DAT files at the moment is to create
BS> indididual XPO files so that all symbols are included, delete the existing
BS> data and import the data from the XPO files. Kind of a pain, but it should
BS> work even if you have to create a number of XPO files. One of the XPO
BS> vendors could possibly automate this procedure and have another saleable
BS> product.
BS> ~Bob
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