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To: Richard Estes who wrote (5423)	7/16/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: gonzongo	Respond to of 11149

yes- we will see the WOW guys on the 24th- remind us to get help from them on this. g

To: Richard Estes who wrote (5423)	7/17/1998 2:00:00 AM
From: Theodore Johnson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11149

Thread, I bought Qp+2 and loaded it into my computer. I also have metastock 6.5. The charts in metastock wont display the data with dates later than April to June 1998. I can look at the same chart in QP+2 and all the data is there back to 1/2/92. How do I transfer the data to metastock so my metastock files have all the historical data from QP+2?? Thanks in advance for your help this is a great thread. Theo

To: Richard Estes who wrote (5423)	7/18/1998 6:13:00 PM
From: John Schott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

If I remember correctly MS format was lifted from CCI (???) which was about the only data service "way back then"> MS stuck with it for historical reasons (just like DOS planned to use cassette tape as an I/O device). I got the impression that the MS upgrade cycle went: * Original two files per stock (form and data) with 256 limit * Same as one, with only one format file per directory * 2000 file per directory limit in newest version Apparently the licensing provisions for the latest version is tight and/or expensive. The Virtual approach is "A++ clever" programming. Indicentally I got a chance to briefly try Trade Station for an AAII SIG demo and it too seems to love eating those virtual MetaStock files ('Twas I fear, a non-extensive checkout). One problem (which might be related, is that WOW would crash if you had a lot (about 800-900) TC2000 data files in older versions 3 and 4. (And why I switched from WOW to MSW back then). It was apparently an inherient limit in the WOW development tool, not a programmer problem. Could this be related.