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To: Gary Lyben who wrote (7438)	10/27/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: Debra Orlow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Anyone, how can you get a list of the components of an index? I tried the F1 that the help file tells you to, with no result. Thanks.

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (7438)	10/28/1998 8:29:00 AM
From: Debra Orlow	Respond to of 11149

Gary, thanks for via.b. But didn't I have that data last week? Couple of other picky things..... =>when a ticker changes, is there a time lag on your end to have the history appended to the new ticker? (case in point yesterday, FLEXF changed to FLEX, only have one day of data now) =>when I run a scan and process VMS, is there a way to have the stocks be sorted in alphabetical order at the same time? currently, after I run the scan, I go to the Downloader in order to sort. it's a pain. =>I don't know if you saw my other post, but when I try using the F1 function in order to get a component list for an index, the hourglass shows up while I am pressing the key, but nothing comes up. any thoughts? thanks, Deb

To: Gary Lyben who wrote (7438)	10/28/1998 10:10:00 AM
From: unixgeek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

When is daily data *not* daily data? I have a scan which looks like: input = "rydex.lst"; // contains a bunch of rydex mut-fund tickers output = "rydex_jnk.lst"; processMS = "c:\meta_real\rydex", MsData; println symbol; The preceding does indeed generate the right list, it generates "real" (as opposed to virtual) Metastock data in the right directory. Metastock reads the files and displays them as it should. However, when I try to run an exploration on this data, Metastock thinks it's weekly data. When I add that directory to the list of directories on which to run the exploration and check the "securities" tab, it says that all the Rydex securities are "Wkly" periodicity, and the exploration dies. Why is this? What is it about this data that makes MS think it's weekly?