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From: amaranth@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Paul Amaranth)
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Subject: CRSP & Compustat tapes on VMS
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Date: 24 Jul 90 15:30:57 GMT
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Our business school maintains a subscription to the CRSP and Compustat
database tapes (stock prices, company performance etc over many years) 
which will be maintained on a VMS system.  Loading the data doesn't
seem to present much of a problem - other than the space required, but
extracting usable  subsets is.  

CRSP provides a CD ROM version with an interface program, but for various
reasons, this was rejected by the business school.

I am interested in hearing from anyone who has experience with these
products in a VMS environment and particularly how the retrieval problem
was handled (note I did not say "solved" 8-).

Please email responses to me and I will summarize if there is sufficient
interest.


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