My WAG (Wild Ass Guess) would be that the OI field is a fixed point 32 bit number (same as volume) which has a max value of 4 billion. The AA stock is already at 1 billion.
Try cutting off 3 zeros from each OI entry and see if that helps. Try adding $BREAKONERROR 1 to the commands in addition to $DEBUG and see if the error log file has any hints. --- In [email protected], "TA" <tagro...@...> wrote: > > I am trying to import an ascii file with following data to the Open Interest > field: > > > > A,8/27/2010,346000000 > > AA,8/27/2010,1020000000 > > > > The following is my format file instructions. It keeps on failing. Do you > see why? TIA > > > > $FORMAT TICKER, Date_USA, OPENINT > > $SKIPLINES 0 > > $NOQUOTES 1 > > $AUTOADD 0 > > $OVERWRITE 1 > > $SEPARATOR , > > $DEBUG 1 >
