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COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE -
MetaStock (r) Command Line Data Conversion Utilities release 1.7.2
Copyright (C) 2004 Mohammed Illyas Mansoor (mimansoor@yahoo.com).
These utility programs are free to use;
These utility programs are distributed in the hope that it
will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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These are the release notes for MetaStock Command Line Data Conversion
Utilities version 1.7.2
DOCUMENTATION:
- Two command line utilies are provided in this release.
*) Utility to convert MetaStock (r) Binary Data Files
(MASTER, F[censored].DAT) format to MetaStock(r) ASCII
(SYMB,D,YYMMDD,O,H,L,C,V,OI) or (SYMB,I,YYMMDD,HH:MM:SS,O,H,L,C,V,OI)
format
Command Usage:
C:\\ms2asc --help
ms2asc: Converts MetaStock Binary Data files to MetaStock ASCII file format
Usage:
ms2asc [--master=|-m <master-filename>] [--file=|-f <ascii-filename>]
[--help|-h] [--version|-v] [--quite|-q] [--indir=|-i <data-directory>]
[--purgeZeroVol|-p] [--symbolContains=|-s <ticker_symbol>]
[--nameContains=|-n <ticker_name>] [--printDateFrom=|-d <date>]
[--ignoreTicker=yes|no] [--ignoreName=yes|no] [--ignorePer=yes|no]i
[--ignoreTime=yes|no] [--ignoreOpen=yes|no] [--ignoreOpenInt=yes|no]
[--verbosity=low|medium|high] [--exactmatch=yes|no]
[--printDateUpto=|-u <date>] [--priorityLevel=|-l low|medium|high]
Example:
In the directory <data-directory> where your MASTER and F[censored].DAT files
reside run C:\\ms2asc -m MASTER -f myascfile.asc -i masterdir
myascfile.asc file will contain data in MetaStock (r) eight field
ASCII format.
*) Utility to convert MetaStock (r) ASCII
(SYMB,D,YYMMDD,O,H,L,C,V,OI), (SYMB,I,YYMMDD,HH:MM:SS,O,H,L,C,V,OI)
format to MetaStock (r) Binary Data Format (MASTER, F[censored].DAT),
Check for more supported formats in ChangeLog.txt file.
C:\\asc2ms --help
asc2ms: Converts MetaStock ASCII files to MetaStock Binary Data file format
Usage:
asc2ms [--master=|-m <master-filename>]
[--file=|-f <ascii-filename>] [--help|-h]
[--version|-v] [--quite|-q] [-o <data-output-directory>]
[--recordFileExist=|-r appendRecord|updateRecord|recordReplace|fileReplace]
[--traversefolders=|-t] [--symbol=|-s <ticker-symbol>]
[--name=|-n <ticker-name> [--useadjustedclose|-u]
[--date=|-d <date-feild> [--reverseOrder|-b]
[--priorityLevel=|-l low|medium|high]
[--verbosity= low|medium|high]
[--createNewFiles=|-c yes|no]
[--ignoreOpenInterest=yes|no]
[--ignoreOpen=yes|no]
[--dopFiles=|-p yes|no]
Example:
In the directory where you want to create MASTER and F[censored].DAT files
run
C:\\asc2ms -f myascfiles.asc -r r -o masterdir
You will have MASTER and F[censored].DAT files created in "masterdir"
directory. Before running this program if you already had MASTER
and F[censored].DAT files, the records with same date, or with same date
and time for intraday data files, would be replaced with the data
in the ASCII file.
You could also opt for replacing the entire data file by selecting
-r fileReplace option, the default is append data record.
You could also opt for traverse destination folders option, to create
the MASTER and data files in different directories, by selection -t
option. This option is useful if you have more than 255 different
securities in your ascii data file.
Data downloaded from Yahoo could also be converted into metastock format
Example:
In the directory where you want to create MASTER and F[censored].DAT files run
C:\\asc2ms -f myascfiles.csv -o masterdir --symbol TICKER --name TICKER_NAME
--useadjustedclose
You will have MASTER and F[censored].DAT files created in "masterdir"
with symbol as TICKER and issue name as TICKER_NAME you could opt
to use the adjusted close given by yahoo, in this case all open,
high, low and close will be same as "adjusted close" price. Otherwise
adjusted close will be ignored.
As of v1.7.0 MsCmdLineUtils support standard i/o files, hence these
can be piped with other programs.
