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Strategies & Market Trends : Metastock 6.0 for Window -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jon Coert who wrote (2766)	2/11/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: Richard Estes	Respond to of 4056

From what you say, the old 255 format can be read by MSWIN, even after 2000. You didn't mention who your vendor was, but you said all worked. Do any use 4 digit data. Or is the number of digits the problem? It seems to work both ways. The fear was that somehow 6.52 wouldn't read 255 type data. It does it now. I am sure they didn't put a clock inside to cut it off.

To: Jon Coert who wrote (2766)	2/11/1999 7:16:00 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

I received another response from Equis tech support. The relevant portion: MetaStock uses the format Microsoft use for two charter years. Microsoft uses 30 to 99 to represent 1900 and 00 to 29 to represent 2000. However if you are using another program to read MetaStock files the data format will be controlled by that other program. You may want to contact the manufacturers of any other programs that read MetaStock data files to find out how they use two character years. Also, I created some Y2k test data using Excel, imported it via downloader and read it successfully in Metastock. Yeah! However, none of my other programs was able to read that file correctly. Boo!