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To: jbhernandez who wrote (24763)	3/5/2000 12:59:00 AM
From: Atin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34811

My program will read comma separated text files if they are in the format: date,open,high,low,close,volume where date has to be in the exact format MM/DD/YYYY e.g. 03/04/2000, or 11/08/1996. If you're using high/low, you can leave open and close as 0, but all fields have to be there. Same for volume, it can be 0, but has to be there. There should be no extraneous lines at the top or bottom, no column headings etc. I don't do error checking of the data, so the file has to match the format. TC2000 can export data in this exact format, and you can massage other comma separated files generated by programs into my format by using Excel. The way you read the file is by typing, for example, file://c:/data/msft.csv in the place you normally put in symbols. If you're trying to read real-time tick charts, the times will not show since the file doesn't have time, but the charts will be correct. -Atin