v1.8.4 Change Log: (Sun Mar 18 2007) =================== *) ms2asc: Fixed a bug in --exactMatch=yes for XMASTER symbols. v1.8.2 Change Log: (Wed Dec 13 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Complied Linux binary under dynamic link mode. *) ms2asc: Complied Linux binary under dynamic link mode. Note: v1.8.1 binaries give Seg Fault under Linux v1.8.1 Change Log: (Thu Nov 02 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Changed parallel execution to happen between load price data and processing of data, instead of initialize master data and load price. This has dramatically increased the speed of completion for large amount of price data conversions. Note: Did this only for non-traverse option. v1.8.0 Change Log: (Mon Oct 30 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Added parallel execution of load price data and intialize master database. *) asc2ms: Added new progress bar indicator based on percentage complete, rather than dots. v1.7.9 Change Log: (Sun Oct 29 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Added Thread support into the tool (using pthread lib) *) asc2ms: Now has improved priority handling. *) asc2ms: Added --forceWrite option, you could use this option if your database has been locked by some other program. Usage: asc2ms -f -o --forceWrite=yes etc., v1.7.8 Change Log: (Mon Oct 09 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Performance Optimizations done using Intel VTune. *) ms2asc: Performance Optimizations done using Intel VTune. v1.7.7 Change Log: (Sun Aug 20 2006) =================== *) ms2asc: Added new option --ignoreHeader to avoid header line from getting printed with the ascii file. By default --ignoreHeader=NO. If [-f ] option is set to some valid file then headerline will be saved in /headerline_ else if -f is set to '-' or 'notset' then headerline will be printed on standard error file. v1.7.6 Change Log: (Tue Jul 18 2006) =================== *) ms2asc: Added new option --descMaster to output contents of MASTER and XMASTER files. Usage: ms2asc --descMaster -f master_details.txt v1.7.5 Change Log: (Sun Jul 09 2006) =================== *) sortmsdata: New tool added to supplement ms2asc tool, this tool can be used to sort MS ascii data. Note this tool expects all the fields output by ms2asc tool, ie., --ignore option of ms2asc should not be used with this tool. This tool will sort on (primarykey) 'TICKER_SYMBOL', then on (secondarykey) 'Date' then on (tertiarykey) 'TIME'. Usage: ms2asc -i | perl sortmsdata > sortedfile.asc or ms2asc -i | perl sortmsdata | asc2ms -o sortedms or ms2asc -funsorteddata.asc sortmsdata -iunsorteddata.asc -fsorteddata *) ms2singleasc: Added -o option to create new directories and -h option. Also need to make sure that this tool can only be used if tickers of the same type are grouped together, in other words it works fine with ms2asc's output. *) ms2singleasc: Added changes to replace '$' , '*' and ':' to '_' from the ticker symbol v1.7.4 Change Log: (Mon Jul 03 2006) =================== *) ms2singleasc: New tool added to supplement ms2asc tool. This tool can be used to created single ticker ascii files, one for each ticker. Usage: ms2asc -i | perl ms2singleasc -oindividualascii v1.7.3 Change Log: (Mon Jun 05 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Made a few optimizations to the code, Now asc2ms completes noticeably faster!. v1.7.2 Change Log: (Mon May 22 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Fixed a bug, in Windows version some times last line was not being converted. v1.7.1 Change Log: (Sat May 06 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Added progress bar indicator. *) ms2asc: Added progress bar indicator. v1.7.0 Change Log: (Fri May 05 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Default input file now is standard input (stdin) If -f option is not given it defaults to stdin. Error messages and output is now sent to stderr rather than stdout. *) ms2asc: Default output file is standard output (stdout). *) ms2asc: Errors are now output to stderr. Note: With these changes asc2ms, ms2asc can be used with pipes to input data and take data from. v1.6.8 Change Log: (Mon Apr 24 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Added check to return error if date is not specified in either header line or command line. v1.6.7 Change Log: (Sun Apr 23 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Added support for BSE bhav copy (India) Note: BSE bhavcopy does not provide date, hence need to provide date from command line. Ex: asc2ms -fEQ210406.CSV -d "21-APR-2006" -o test --verbosity=high v1.6.6 Change Log: (Wed Apr 19 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Fixed a bug, while providing date from user with --date option and data having header line, date was not being taken properly. v1.6.5 Change Log: (Sat Mar 18 2006) =================== *) asc2ms: Fixed a bug in large volume data crashing MS. v1.6.4 Change Log: (Mon Oct 31 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: Fixed some memory leaks. v1.6.3 Change Log: (Fri Aug 26 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: Removed support for SERIES "N1" and added support for SERIES "BT" in NSE bhav copy (India) v1.6.2 Change Log: (Fri Jun 02 2005) =================== *) Added option to update only the last record. v1.6.1 Change Log: (Sun Mar 06 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: Added support to store 4000 scrips in a single directory. *) asc2ms: Added support for SERIES "IX" and "N1" in NSE bhav copy (India). *) asc2ms: Fixed a bug in startDate of XMASTER records. *) asc2ms: Optimized Initialize Master, Xmaster database. *) asc2ms/ms2asc: Changed the default to --verbosity=medium v1.6.0 Change Log: (Mon Mar 03 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: Added XMASTER support. v1.5.20 Change Log: (Sat Feb 26 2005) =================== *) asc2ms/ms2asc: Added the following new option: [--verbosity=high|medium|low] The default is --verbosity=low This option is useful to select the level of details output on the console. *) ms2asc: Added the following new option: [--exactmatch=yes|no] The default is --exactmatch=no This option is useful in conjunction with --symbolContains and --nameContains options to extract only an exactmatch. *) asc2ms: Fixed a bug: While converting NSE bhav copy only series "EQ" and "BE" will be converted to MS format. v1.5.19 Change Log: (Mon Feb 21 2005) =================== *) ms2asc: Added the following new options. [--ignoreTicker=yes|no] [--ignoreName=yes|no] [--ignorePer=yes|no] [--ignoreTime=yes|no] [--ignoreOpen=yes|no] [--ignoreOpenInt=yes|no] These options could be used to ignore some fields from the output price data ascii file. The names themselves are self explanatory, If --ignoreTicker=yes is passed then ticker name will not be output in the price data file. By default they are all set to "no". That means all fields will be output. v1.5.18 Change Log: (Sat Feb 19 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: Added support for Record with length 5, 6, Intraday 6, Intraday 7, fields. *) asc2ms: Added new option to ignore "Open Interest" field. [--ignoreOpenInterest=yes|no] The default is --ignoreOpenInterest=no. Note that this option only affects newly created price data files. If old price data has open interest field, open interest field will not be ignored. *) asc2ms: Added new option to ignore "Open" field. [--ignoreOpen=yes|no] The default is --ignoreOpen=no. Note that this option only affects newly created price data files. If old price data has open field, open field will not be ignored. If "Open" is ignored, then "Open Interest" will also be ignored, this will happen even if explicitly --ignoreOpenInterest is set to yes. *) asc2ms: Optimized finding new record file numbers, this avoids searching for duplicate records or holes if there are none. *) ms2asc: Fixed Bug: Open price output was not proper for 6 field record. v1.5.17 Change Log: (Mon Feb 14 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: Reduced per line allocated memory to 128 bytes and increased number of lines to 0x1FFFFF. *) ms2asc: Now supports reading XMASTER price data. v1.5.16 Change Log: (Sun Feb 06 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: Bug Fix in dop file name, dop file name was getting negative names for records > 127 fixed. v1.5.15 Change Log: (Sat Feb 05 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: Internal representation of file record hash now uses dynamic memory allocation. *) asc2ms: Max number of ascii lines which can be processed is now increased to 0xFFFFF number of lines. *) asc2ms: Now uses unused record numbers between used record numbers, like if F1.DAT, F3.DAT are present the new ticker file gets F2.DAT instead of F4.DAT. *) ms2asc: Removed a debug print getting printed. v1.5.14 Change Log: (Sun Jan 30 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: Added [--dopFiles=|-p yes|no] option. This option can be used to create F*.DOP Files. The default is --dopFiles=no. Note that this option only affects newly created price data files. F*.DOP files for existing price data files are not affected. v1.5.13 Change Log: (Sat Jan 26 2005) =================== *) asc2ms: In case of traverseRecord option (-t), the tool now creates apart from A-Z directories 0-9 directories based on the first letter of the symbol, for any other character the ticker would be put under '^' directory. *) ms2asc: the headerline is now changed to use instead of , it still outputs data in YYYYMMDD format. *) asc2ms: Fixed bugs related to missing data files, asc2ms now handles missing data files properly. *) asc2ms: Detects duplicate records in the master file, makes an attempt to reuse them if the symbol is different from the other record. If the detected duplicate record has the same symbol then this record will be ignored. v1.5.12 Change Log: (Sat Jan 15 2005) =================== *) Now using dynamic memory allocation for asc_line pointers. *) Fixed a bug in -rupdateRecord Logic. v1.5.11 Change Log: (Wed Jan 05 2005) =================== *) Added [--createNewFiles=|-c yes|no] option. This option could be used to tell the tool not to create new symbol data files. By default it is --createNewFiles=yes. v1.5.10 Change Log: (Tue Jan 04 2005) =================== *) Fixed a bug format was assuming date to be in
whereas standard metastock usage is to expect in fixed this. If the date is in dd/mm/yyyy then could be used instead. v1.5.9 Change Log: (Sat Jan 01 2005) ================== *) Added support for header line field , and TDATE formats. TDATE is again mm/dd/yyyy format data. *) Added support for "DELIVERY" header line field, which is a synonym for "OPENINTEREST" field. v1.5.8 Change Log: (Fri Dec 31 2004) ================== *) asc2ms now supports updateRecord option if recordFile exists. The option is: [--recordFileExist=|-r appendRecord|updateRecord|recordReplace|fileReplace] UpdateRecord option is useful if you need to update some price data fields like name/open/high/low/close/volume/openinterest and at the same time you want to preserve other fields intact. Note: You cannot use this option to update ticker-symbol date and time fields, since these are used to identify the record (record key fields). v1.5.7 Change Log: (Fri Dec 24 2004) ================== *) asc2ms and ms2asc now support priority levels. Supported priority levels are high/medium/low. This feature is useful to reduce load on the system when its used to convert data in bulk, in batch mode. The option is [--priorityLevel=|-l high|medium|low] If option is not specified then by default it is high. v1.5.6 Change Log: (Mon Dec 20 2004) ================== *) ms2asc now supports purging of zero volume data, a new option [--purgeZeroVol|-p] has been introduced to achieve the same. *) ms2asc now supports selective price data output, it supports the following options: [--symbolContains=|-s ] [--nameContains=|-n ] [--printFromDate=|-d ] [--printUptoDate=|-u ] For example, if --symbolContains="INTC" is passed, then all symbols containing the words "INTC" will be output into the ascii file. Similarly, if --nameContains="Intel" is passed, then all ticker names containing the words "Intel" will be output into the ascii file. Note: the letters are not case sensitive so "INTC" and "intc" both are equivalent. If --printDateFrom="27-Apr-1975" is passed, then all symbols with dates greater than or equal to the above date will be output into the ascii file. If --printDateUpto="27-Apr-1975" is passed, then all symbols with dates less than or equal to the above date will be output into the ascii file. Note: The date format could be any of the supported date formats, for ex: "19750427", "27/04/1975", "750427" etc., *) asc2ms has a bug fix in ticker name. Ticker name was being written same as ticker symbol, fixed it. v1.5.5 Change Log: (Wed Dec 15 2004) ================== *) asc2ms now supports [--reverseOrder|-b] option. If this option is enabled, then the data is read from last line first. This option is useful to convert Yahoo! price data, which is stored as latest price first format. v1.5.4 Change Log: (Fri Dec 10 2004) ================== *) asc2ms now generates EMASTER file along with MASTER file. v1.5.3 Change Log: (Sun Dec 5 2004) ================== *) Implemented the following header line format: DateTime,Open,High,Low,Close,VAvg,Qty,Value,Trades,OpenInt,Cnt DateTime field is just a time format field in the following "03:50:25 p" or "10:50:25 a" format. VAvg, Value, Trades are ignored. Note this is an intraday tick data format, since date is the same for all the prices. *) Now empty fields are recognized, and treated as such. *) Header fields "Cnt" or "Index" is now used to sort based on the index. *) date field can now be specified on the command line. --date="05-Dec-2004", -d "05-Dec-2004", -d "05/12/2004", -d "20041205" etc., are valid date field formats. v1.5.2 Change Log: (Sat Nov 13 2004) ================== *) Implemented the following header line format Index,Date Time,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume Here 'Index' field is ignored, and is as good as XX field. Date and Time could be in any of the below mentioned formats. Date: mmddyy, mmddyyyy, dd/mm/yy, dd/mm/yyyy, dd-mm-yy Time: hh:mm:ttt, hh:mm:ss, hhmm, hhmmss, hhmmttt etc., This header line format is useful for those who use exported csv file from IndiaBulls website. v1.5.1 Change Log: (Sat Nov 6 2004) ================== *) Implemented ignoring of unused or dontcare fields which can be represented by XX in the header line. like ,,,,, ... or ,XX,, etc., *) Now NSE (National Stock Exchange of India) bhav copy *.csv format, can be directly converted to Metastock format. Bhav copy csv format is as below: SYMBOL,SERIES,OPEN,HIGH,LOW,CLOSE,LAST,PREVCLOSE,TOTTRDQTY,TOTTRDVAL,TIMESTAMP, So the above header line format is now supported, where: SERIES, LAST, PREVCLOSE, TOTTRDVAL fields are ignored presently In case you need to use LAST instead of exchange adjusted close price CLOSE then you could rename LAST to CLOSE and rename CLOSE to XX to ignore the same. v1.5 Change Log: (Sun Oct 31 2004) ================ *) Now asc2ms converts Yahoo! downloaded .csv format v1.4.3 Change Log: (Sun Oct 31 2004) ================== *) Now asc2ms uses date format in format v1.4.2 Change Log: (Sun Oct 24 2004) ================== *) Now asc2ms uses header line in ascii data file v1.4.1 Change Log: (Sun Oct 24 2004) ================== *) Now ms2asc outputs data with a header in the following format: ",,,,