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Ken,
The problem with ChartTips in Windows 98 is that it displays just as in
Windows 95, but it contains no useful information. Thus, the chart is
partially obscured by a useless rectangle.
Tom
At 09:58 PM 12/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>Tom Strickland wrote:
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>> Ken,
>>
>> One of the problems with MetaStock V.6.5 is indeed the Chart Tips problem.
>> That really bugs me because I used it a lot to get specific price and
>> indicator values.
>
>Specifically what is the problem? I use the Chart Tips literally
hundreds of
>times a day 5 days a week. I would not want to be without it but could
survive.
>It's funny how quickly we find it difficult to get along without something
that
>only recently we didn't even have. <g> Maybe Equis will comment on
whether it's
>a problem in MSPro 6.52/Win98.
>
>
>> The other problem is that I often get a Network Log-on
>> Failed message in the Downloader when I use the Express Download function.
>> I have also had the problem on occasion with the regular Download function.
>> I talked to Equis Support about this, and after some discussion, they said
>> it was probably a Windows 98 compatibility problem. In any event, the
>> problem still occurs, but if I screw around with the program enough, I can
>> get it to download. On occasion, I have to close the Downloader and restart
>> it.
>
>Ahh, the good old days of using the Express Download function. I remember
them
>fondly. I agree that would be a source of frustration. I don't think
that would
>be a problem in my case since I use Pinnacle Data's GETDATAI program.
>
>> In spite of my complaints about these problems, I'd like to second or
third
>> the remarks (by Steve Kernish?) that Equis' service is far better that
>> Omega's.
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> [snip]
>
>> One of the Equis managers worked with me for several days by telephone
and he
>> even sent me his personal modem to test out. I wound up buying his modem
from
>> him, and I got the problem fixed. That made a believer out of me.
>
>My experience has been the same. Equis has always gone out of their way
to help
>me.
>
>>
>> While I'm wound up, I'd like to comment on Gateway computers. As I
>> indicated, I owned an old Gateway and was pleased with it. Then I switched
>> to a 133 MHz Pentium notebook (Texas Instruments) a couple of years ago.
>> Last summer it crashed big time and I was without a computer. I called
>> Gateway and ordered a 350 MHz with all the bells and whistles. I told them
>> that I was in a hurry and they gave me a delivery date about two weeks
>> hence. On the day it should have been delivered I recevied a postcard from
>> them with a form message saying the delivery had been delayed for several
>> weeks and that if this was unsatifsactory to me, to please sign and return
>> the card. That impersonal, don't-give-a-damn message really wound my
spring.
>>
>> I signed their card and immediately called Dell. I kept in touch with the
>> Dell people and they kept me fully informed as to the status of my order. I
>> had a new Dell in about 10 days. It's a 400 MHz, fully loaded, and it cost
>> $100 less than the Gateway.
>>
>> I may just have had a bad experience, but for $2600 I expected better than
>> an impersonal postcard.
>>
>> Hope you find something of value in the above comments.
>>
>
>Yep, sure did. Several things in fact. Thanks for the info.
>
>Regards,
>Ken
>mailto:divenfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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