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To: Darth Trader who wrote (2721)	12/18/1997 7:04:00 PM
From: Jeff Grover	Respond to of 11149

DT, Afraid I don't use SuperCharts. If it will accept both, I suspect you'd be better off using the MetaStock format. Binary formats are generally more efficient WRT disk storage and program reads. Suspect someone will correct me if this is not the case.

To: Darth Trader who wrote (2721)	12/19/1997 10:02:00 AM
From: CynicalTruth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

DT... I use SC4 and convert to MS format. Remember though, the nightly updates to MS dirs won't do splits, name changes etc...

To: Darth Trader who wrote (2721)	12/19/1997 10:38:00 AM
From: Orrin C Stevens Jr	Respond to of 11149

I use Metastock format. It is a lot more convenient than messing around with ASCII files. You simply need to be aware that under certain circumstances, QP does not automatically reflect stock splits, etc., in those Metastock files. Seems like sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. But Metastock format also automatically identifies the stock and its characteristics to Supercharts 4.0, but with ascii you have to do that. That can be inconvenient, irritating, and time consuming.