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To: Razorbak who wrote (70)	3/16/1999 5:42:00 PM
From: Mad2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 477

Re: Boston Chicken??? Have you looked at one of their filings? It would take hours to sort thru all the financing, swaps and other issues related to their interests, liabilities and other financial activities they have entered into with the various development companies involved that operate their stores. What a mess. Too bad, my wife has taken to stopping there to pick up dinner when she doesn't have time to get dinner on the table. Their carry out meals are excellent. Unfortunatly I don't have a couple of spare days on my hands to figure out if they have a chance of staying alive financially.

To: Razorbak who wrote (70)	3/16/1999 9:07:00 PM
From: fred whitridge	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 477

Databases that can do Z score. in the past i was a user of Compustat which most certainly could run its entire database sorting on Z score, sub tabbing by industry, etc. now that i don't have a great big employer i subscribe to investors alliance which sends me a CD once a month with a fairly large database of public cos. Membership is a couple hundred bucks. Shall look in the office tomorrow, but i think Z score may be one of their canned screens. Helpful to this quest of back testing, they have quarterly data going back a ways and annual data going back a number of years. Sorting and formulae are not what they might be, but hey, whaddyou expect. am pretty sure it has most of the variables needed. SWORD: i have a friend who built a suite of programs "Ro" which did the fetching, and "Bot" which did the crunching. i think it was written in PERL. He turned it on for me and went thru every proxy statement on the EDGAR server looking for a few keywords one weekend. it at least identified the haystacks where i wanted to go looking for needles.