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To: Gregory who wrote (3996)	4/21/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

>> The server that QP uses I ma sure has all the data, but nobody in sound mund would download all of them; first it will be forever, second probably there is a limit on number of tickers that you can download for free Both wrong. The download takes under a minute, normally. You don't have a choice about what you download; you always get it all. Updating the database takes another 3-5 minutes (on Pentium class machines). That updates all the stocks. Name changes and splits are updated in the process. There are approximately (I'm not looking) 12,000 symbols involved. I don't know where 80,000 comes from--there are no BB or option symbols. Check it out. You get 30 days free. Don't take my word for it.

To: Gregory who wrote (3996)	4/21/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

As a matter of fact, since my last post I downloaded todays updates (26 seconds -- faster than usual) and updated the database (2 minutes, 48 seconds, also a little faster). 9700 symbols were updated. This is a bit smaller than normal, but not too unusual. So, take it or leave it.