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If you use Knight Ridder end-of-day data and had trouble with the
"professional" data file for futures, read on. I got it to work after a
lot of stumbling about. (I don't know if the same problem exists for
the "American major markets" file.)
It appears they put it on the computer without the normal self
extraction utility. The files downloaded correctly but then the program
hung at the extraction routine. After windows95 shut the program down
with a error message, the files were nowhere to be found since the
zipped file is normally deleted automatically.
I copied the fpro1.exe to a different directory before aborting the
hung program and then used pkunzip to extract the file. Then I copied
the resulting file back to the KR directory. This extracted file was
the normal fp111897.all file. I let the downloading program do a
"manual conversion" on this and it appeared to function correctly. The
first few charts I've looked at include data for today.
If someone normally gets this and doesn't want to go through this mess,
I have the file fp111897.all I could send you.
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