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Hello Janene,
I have used own routines to access to Metastock database. I can say
that internal format of the emaster, master and *.dat files have
not been changed. Dates are saved as YYYYMMDD-19000000 floating point
values. The old database format is Y2k compatible.
To avoid 255 limitation Metastock maintain extra files for indexes and
data if necessary.
I can say that the old emaster and master files preserves 16 bit place
for sequential number of *.dat file. Equis was able to avoid 255
limitation with minimal incompatibility.
/ksr
mailto:ksr@xxxxxxx
J> Dan,
J> The Metastock format that has 255 symbols per directory has been used by
J> several companies for a long time. This is because Metastock started using
J> it after another company that was using it went out of business. That meant
J> everyone could use it. This is part of the reason so many programs used the
J> Metastock format. When Metastock went to having 2000 symbols per directory,
J> this changed. They did this around the Y2K time. So their new format was
J> Y2K compatible and the old one was not. We were able to adjust the old
J> format to work after Y2K. The old format was freely available, so editing
J> was easy. The new format is not freely available. I am not sure about all
J> of the details. They sell their license as read-only fairly readily, but
J> that does not help us. We cannot work around this and will be using the
J> format that has 255 symbols. Thanks to Michael and Michel for their
J> perspective. I do not think everyone realizes the history of where this
J> stuff came from or why so many programs us the Metastock format.
J> Janene
J> janene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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