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Subject: Data from the CD
> From: "salvucci@xxxxxxxx" <salvucci@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: metastock-list@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Metastock
> I just received my copy of MSWin 6.0. I've been spending all night
> copying the data on the historical CD from the CD drive to my hard
> drive. Did it take several hours for everyone else too?
What a Dumb, Clunky program! A CD-Rom will hold over 600 MB of data. Why
does anyone need to COPY that data to the hard disk to use it? Why can't
Metastock read the data off the CD, and save all that disk space?
The Omega Market Analysis program has a CD-Rom from Dial Data (I get my
data from Dial Data for MetaStock) where the program reads the data from
the CD, and then supplements that with data from the hard disk from
where the CD leaves off to the present. Then they sell quarterly updates
of the CD, and when it is installed, the program erases all duplicate
data from your hard disk, and you just update the data on your hard disk
till the next time you purchase a CD.
If the data on a CD is readable by a PC program, or an Apple program,
why can't Metastock read that data also without having to load up your
hard disk with duplicate data?
Things like that seem to me to be supremely illogical.
dennis.kier@xxxxxxxxx (Dennis Kier)
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