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To: Richard Estes who wrote (2755)	2/10/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 4056

All, as you know this issue grows. Most support for MS format today comes because the originator computrac published the spec for the MS 255 format. Equis's new Y2K and 2K security format are licensed more tightly. This y2K issue has the side effect of eliminating all but downloader supported vendors from providing data in this format. TC2000, Stockwiz, Quote Monkey, QP2, etc may not be able to support MS anymore. Equis can lock out some players from their solution. I don't think this benefits them. Lots of existing charting programs will need upgrade to use MSFL to access the data versus their current direct access. Anyway you look it, its a pain for the customer. I don't support equis in their endevors. I wish more robust and open data formats than they promote. There is no true standard. Varieties of data vendors and charting vendors strive to make their programs as data indpedent as possible and give the user more flexibility in mixing matching, data, charting, and analsysis. My personal choice is to continue with Quotes Plus 2.0. I have advanced GET and Technifilter+ 8.1 which both read Y2K compliant QP2 and immediately can access 23,000+ securities seemless with no conversion or extra effort. I'm still quite new with TF+ and have lots of MS formulas to port but it seems a capable replacement for MS. Hopefully I will continue to be able to use MS. I love its charts but I'm preparing to replace it if necessary. TF+ has far more powerful system testing and scanning/explorer than MS. I'm continually amazed at the cryptic power :) Sean

To: Richard Estes who wrote (2755)	2/11/1999 2:51:00 PM
From: Jon Coert	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4056

Richard, To test data with post-Y2K dates, I had to convert current data using the DownLoader (although I also collected data with the computer clock set post Y2K, of course I couldn't get any data past the current actual date). All data vendors work fine now, the question is will they work when you try to collect data post Y2K, and that I don't know. I used both 2 and 4 digit dates in testing. I don't know anything about their data format availability, sorry. The current version should be the final version (although I'm sure they thought that with each previous version). --Jon