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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (2569)	11/30/1997 11:51:00 AM
From: Dick Brown	Respond to of 11149

Thanks Sean.. Dick

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (2569)	12/1/1997 8:56:00 AM
From: Nine_USA	Respond to of 11149

The great power in R2 specs makes Headings and Footers a MUST. The R2 scanning expansion is tremendous. The reporting which then becomes possible is largely blunted without headings and footers. Also, the lack of the ability to get subtotals & grand totals (or count items, which is the same thing) is a big deficiency in a scanning/reporting program. We get this and the ability to do many useful things by having variables (float, integer and string) which are designated as NON RESET with each new stock being scanned. This lets us do things like: 1. increment by 1 to count. 2. accumulate totals for market cap, sales, earnings, etc for stock groups. 3. enable the capture of key values from key indices (or key stocks like GE MSFT INTC KO etc). The capture of such values to NON RESET variables, expands the power of QP scans in directions I value greatly. The capture is easily accomplished: 1. Place the KEY ticker{s) first in your .LST file (say !SPX or GE). 2. The statement on the next line captures variable nrGrowth30. if ticker="GE" then nrGrowth30:=((close(0-close(-30) )/close(-30) 3. variable nrGrowth30 would not be reset for each stock being scanned and could play whatever role one wishes in the rest of the scan logic. Seems like a lot to get for simply letting the user specify variables as NON RESET or normal.