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To: Roger Gough who wrote (4389)	6/14/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

Loaded QP2 friday & updated data. Help file implies Virtual isn't supported under NT4.0 (says only supported under windows 95). Anybody know if this will be the case? Also, anybody notice the index data corrupted? !COMP now shows volume (which is nice), but 6/8,10,11 are missing the volume. !DJ30 is all there w/ volume. !SPX only has about 50 days of data and no volume. I have a 6/10/98 program disk. Probably more, those are the only ones I've tried so far. I was hoping the scans would make better use of available RAM, rather than doing the dreaded "disk sanding routine" again (disk access for each symbol's data as it's used, as in the old QP) To get an idea of the speed difference this can make, start a scan, and let it run through a few hundred tickers (depending how much ram you have), then stop the scan in midflight. Then restart it. All the data up to the point you stopped it at is in memory so no disk thrashing and much faster until it finishes what was in memory. Anyone (Gary???) know if there's a reason the program can't retrieve large blocks of data (based on available system memory), then operate on that data out of ram, rather than disk accesses for each symbol? Or 2 blocks: a working block and a loading block that loads in the background, then the blocks swap functions when one completes?? Scans would be MUCH faster, and you hard drive would thank you! dh

To: Roger Gough who wrote (4389)	6/14/1998 3:50:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 11149

Roger, I agree, the new scan interface was a much critized feature during beta. Unfortunately it was never fixed.... Sean

To: Roger Gough who wrote (4389)	6/14/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: TechTrader42	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 11149

Hi Roger. You write: "In my brief time with Virtual, I have had an excellent experience ... a truly ingenious capability! I have had my screen saver lock up a couple times, and have disabled it for now. I'll re-enable it to see if the problem returns." One thing you could do to get around this is to take QPV out of the Start menu and move it to your desktop. You can open QPV when you need it by double-clicking on the QPV icon. To remove it from the Start menu, right click on Start, click on Open, open the Programs folder, open the Startup folder and then drag and drop the QPV icon out of the folder onto the desktop. Now QPV won't load at startup, but it'll still work when you need it. Brooke

To: Roger Gough who wrote (4389)	6/14/1998 6:33:00 PM
From: Bob Jagow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Right on re the Scan interface, Roger. A promised Borland-like interface is overdue. Another problem with r2 is not being able to access/edit other scans until complex scans complete. To deal with these issues and in lieu of the export/import mechanism, I keep everything in a few programming-editor files and paste them into one of the five visible scan boxes. [R2, unfortunately, often indicates its displeasure with the pastes (at least under NT) with an ObjectWindows popup :-( ] Would be nice to capture the error output in the PE but don't think it possible, and am still hoping for the IDE or for hooks to install PEs. Bob