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Dennis,
The reason why you want to copy info from the CD-ROM to a hard drive
is because a hard drive is much faster than a CD-ROM reader.
When you perform a 'system test' or use 'explorer', you need to use
the quickest way possible. In this instance, a hard drive is the
best way to increase speed.
MY WISH..........(for all Equis Engineers [hint, hint].....
I just wished the next version of Metastock would use a multiple
system test where the system test can analyze multiple securities
just like Windows On Wall Street.
Later,
Mike Salvucci
salvucci@xxxxxxxx
> From: dennis.kier@xxxxxxxxx (Dennis Kier)
> Subject: metastock-digest Digest V
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:39:00 GMT
> Organization: The Source BBS
> To: metastock-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 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)
>
> ---
> * SPEED 2.00 #1468 * Ankh if you love Isis.
>
>
>
/\/\ichael Salvucci
salvucci@xxxxxxxx
Lawrenceburg, Tennessee USA
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