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Re: Conversion from ASCII to MS



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Alberto,

I believe that if you open your ASCII file in Excel, you will find that it's
fairly easy to convert the date into the format that "Trader Joe" suggests.
Play around with it in Excel a little and I believe you'll agree.

Tom
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----- Original Message -----
From: "TraderJoe" <ta-trader@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Conversion from ASCII to MS


> The DownLoader 6.52 is Y2K compliant. The 6.52 manual says that the date
format in an ASCII file, must be YYMMDD (Not YYYYMMDD) or MM/DD/YY.
>
> ---
> Joe
>
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:54:30
>  Arsk0jn wrote:
> >Hi Alburto,
> >You have to upgrade to at least 7.0 to be Y2K compliant--7.02 or 7.2 is
> >better. Try this: Cut some data from Excel that is in the proper format;
i.e.
> >Date Open High etc. Paste it in a file in Downloader. If it is after
1/01/00
> >see what happens.
> >Regards,
> >Joe Nemecek
> >
>
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