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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dominick who wrote (3711)	11/15/2000 11:30:46 PM
From: Michael Olds	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

You may find someone here with the precise answer, but I have a couple of suggestions in the meanwhile: How do you import the data originally? Do you use Downloader? If so you could convert your downloaded files with one piece of data each (there would be a separate "File" for each, not a separate directory) to an Excel format and make yourself an index of sorts. Isn't the name of the .dat file the symbol? If this is the case couldn't you use Find>Files and Folders? If you can phrase this question in a way that just involves the mechanics of finding and identifying your files, you might try asking at www.pcnineoneone.com They have a bunch of very knowledgable guys there that are familiar with DOS. mo

To: Dominick who wrote (3711)	11/16/2000 1:56:30 AM
From: Paul Beattie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

Dominick, FM Labs (http://www.fmlabs.com/) has a Technical Analysis Programmer's Toolkit Version 5.1. Check out the downloads section of their site for "DOS Samples". Play with the samples for a while - You may find something that will help you read a "Master" file in DOS. I think it's this file contains the symbol name info (mapping to F.dat files). You probably know that Metastock sells a SDK that could help. Contact www.equis.com for details. Good luck, Paul

To: Dominick who wrote (3711)	11/16/2000 9:57:40 AM
From: Ken Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

Dominick, I do about the same thing you do with my QP EOD data. I also convert it to ASCII so I can import it into Windows on Wall Street. That process creates files that show the symbol. My point is that you may want to consider this ASCII conversion, even though you may not actually use it, just to let you see the symbol. The process takes maybe 90 seconds on my machine. Of course, I don't do all 10,000 as I'm not interested in that many. I do a "pre-scan" that gets rid of all preferreds, warrants and stocks below $5, etc. That ends up giving me around 3000 symbols. More info, if you want to try this. Ken