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To: Mentat who wrote (140)	10/2/1998 2:07:00 PM
From: Len Giammetta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 805

Mentat, I think MI is ok to use in an emergency, but I do all of my downloading from the Neuro site. I use the MI site just to pick my relateds. I never used the 20 model, but if it works like the 40 and the 60 you access the site by using the "download" button on your program, and from there you have different methods of downloading. You can select your .csv file from the window on the left, or manually add a symbol from the box on the top left. You can also setup a batch file from the file drop down menu and enter your entire portfolio, which will download automatically from the run batch command. The files from Neuro's site are already edited and ready to use. Other commercial programs I've reviewed require manual downloading, editing and preprocessing. Neuro seems to have automated some of these features for us.

To: Mentat who wrote (140)	10/4/1998 7:58:00 AM
From: Jay Hartzok	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 805

Mentat, Is anyone else frustrated with using Microsoft Investor Use Neuro's downloading feature. After all, part of your purchase price applies towards the one year membership in the NS Investment Club. Or have you had Neuro for more than a year and didn't renew it? Jay

To: Mentat who wrote (140)	10/4/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 805

Mentat, "Is anyone else frustrated with using Microsoft Investor for downloading quotes? I've resorted to editing the .csv files by hand using quotes from other services. This would be impractical for a large number of symbols though." I've been able to use TC2000 data by exporting to ASCII then having a DOS batch file rename the file to .CSV and reformat the date. It uses an ancient DOS utility I have called chg.exe to do the reformatting. Something like PERL could also do the reformatting. Since I'm already using TC2000 data, I find this much better than trying to manage yet another data source. CL