BASIC Help With Windows 8.1 tablet

I just bought the HP Stream 7 tablet. I'm an experienced computer user (since the early '80s). My desktop runs Windows 7. I have used an Android tablet for more than a year. This tablet is my first experience with Windows 8. I installed the Classic Shell so I could navigate in a more familiar setting, and this has helped somewhat. I also installed the driver for a wireless Logitech mouse, and that helps. But there is SO MUCH that confuses me about -- is the tablet or Windows 8.1 or both? -- this system, that I need some guidance. Two examples: Internet Explorer always displays pages that I don't want, yet closing those pages is not always successful. And then there's getting access to the keyboard. Sometimes just tapping into box where I should enter some text displays the keyboard. Often I can tap and tap and.....but no keyboard appears. I have looked at both the quick-start guide and the user manual, but they don't help me. Maybe I'm overlooking some obvious things, and maybe I've just become too impatient to solve these issues. I imagine I could search the Net to find some help, but I'm hoping that someone in this forum can point me toward Web pages that will help. Thanks.
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To the best of my knowledge, mouse input in metro apps does not load the on screen keyboard (OSK). Whereas touch does. Having the mouse connected before the app loads is likely causing the app to recognize the mouse as the primary input device.
As I don't know the exact app in question to really reproduce the problem I downloaded a few of the top crossword apps and tested them.
Each of the apps I installed performed in this way:
Booting the device without a mouse connected resulted in the OSK loading.
Booting the device without a mouse connected, loading the app and connecting the mouse resulted in the OSK failing to load.
Booting the device with the mouse connected resulted in the OSK failing to load.
Booting the device with the mouse connected, loading the app and disconnecting the mouse resulted in the OSK failing to load. (Reloading the app resumed OSK functionality.)
This would confirm my earlier assumption that metro apps do not load the OSK with input devices connected, but was a surprise that disconnecting the mouse required me to restart the app before the OSK would work in the app again. It would appear to me after testing this in multiple apps on multiple machines (including a non-HP device) that this is simply the way WIndows 8 metro apps work.
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1) Reduce year field to 1 byte i.e. 14 can be kept as 4
2) Strike ( Decimal) can be reduced to 1 byte ( drop the ending 2 bytes)
3) Month column ( 2 bytes) & call/put ( 1 byte) can be reduced to 1 byte ( saving of 2 bytes) by replacing 01 & C combination with A , 01 & P combination with B so on as mentioned below.
Month( 2 bytes)
Call/Put ( 1 byte)
Replace with
01
C
A
01
P
B
02
C
C
02
P
D
03
C
E
03
P
F
04
C
G
04
P
H
05
C
I
05
P
J
06
C
K
06
P
L
07
C
M
07
P
N
08
C
O
08
P
P
09
C
Q
09
P
R
10
C
S
10
P
T
11
C
U
11
P
V
12
C
W
12
P
X
So the modified ticker will look like GOOG4B10011650
GOOG - symbol
4 - year which is 2014 in this case
B- 01 ( jan) & Put (P) is replaced with letter B
10 - Date
01165 - Strike price
0 - Decimal portion of strike price
The output file should look like below.
<name>,<ticker>,<date>,<open>,<high>,<low>,<close>,<vol>,<oi>
GOOG 10-Jan-2014 1165 Put,GOOG410B011650,20140114,32.9,32.9,32.9,32.9,0,0
Thank you for your inputs with this request.
Regards,
Aimforsky

Hi Neothwin,
Thank you for your prompt response. I really appreciate it. My file contains a header record.
I ran the conversion, it converts very fast.
I noticed the decimal portion of strike is lost in the conversion. AAL140110C00023500 must be converted as AAL4A1000235 but instead its showing as AAL4A10000230 ( last byte
should be 5 but it shows as 0)
Also I noticed it puts double quotes ('') in front of every column. I tried to drop ' in the code but it complains.
Also, instead of giving file name in the shell script , is it possible to go thru all files in a folder and convert them? I'm new to this scripting/programming sorry if I ask you the basic questions. Thank you so much for sparing your valuable time on this
request. Have a great day !
ORIGINAL FILE<name>,<ticker>,<date>,<open>,<high>,<low>,<close>,<vol>,<oi>
AAL 10-Jan-2014 23.5 Call,AAL140110C00023500,20140115,1.85,1.85,1.85,1.85,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 24 Call,AAL140110C00024000,20140115,5.8,5.8,5.8,5.8,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 24.5 Call,AAL140110C00024500,20140115,2.05,2.05,2.05,2.05,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 25 Call,AAL140110C00025000,20140115,2.3,2.3,2.3,2.3,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 25.5 Call,AAL140110C00025500,20140115,1.35,1.35,1.35,1.35,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 26 Call,AAL140110C00026000,20140115,3.4,3.4,3.4,3.4,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 26.5 Call,AAL140110C00026500,20140115,2.65,2.65,2.65,2.65,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 27 Call,AAL140110C00027000,20140115,2.26,2.26,2.26,2.26,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 27.5 Call,AAL140110C00027500,20140115,1.75,1.75,1.75,1.75,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 28 Call,AAL140110C00028000,20140115,1.45,1.45,1.45,1.45,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 28.5 Call,AAL140110C00028500,20140115,0.9,0.9,0.9,0.9,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 29 Call,AAL140110C00029000,20140115,0.4,0.4,0.4,0.4,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 29.5 Call,AAL140110C00029500,20140115,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,4812
AAL 10-Jan-2014 30 Call,AAL140110C00030000,20140115,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,636
AAL 10-Jan-2014 21.5 Put,AAL140110P00021500,20140115,0.08,0.08,0.08,0.08,0,11
AAL 10-Jan-2014 23 Put,AAL140110P00023000,20140115,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,51
AAL 10-Jan-2014 23.5 Put,AAL140110P00023500,20140115,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,235
AAL 10-Jan-2014 24 Put,AAL140110P00024000,20140115,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0,77
AAL 10-Jan-2014 24.5 Put,AAL140110P00024500,20140115,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,292
AAL 10-Jan-2014 25 Put,AAL140110P00025000,20140115,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,1380
AAL 10-Jan-2014 25.5 Put,AAL140110P00025500,20140115,0.02,0.02,0.02,0.02,0,1549
AAL 10-Jan-2014 26 Put,AAL140110P00026000,20140115,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0,665
AAL 10-Jan-2014 26.5 Put,AAL140110P00026500,20140115,0.02,0.02,0.02,0.02,0,632
AAL 10-Jan-2014 27 Put,AAL140110P00027000,20140115,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,2161
AAL 10-Jan-2014 27.5 Put,AAL140110P00027500,20140115,0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1,0,310
AAL 10-Jan-2014 28 Put,AAL140110P00028000,20140115,0.01,0.01,0.01,0.01,0,642
AAL 10-Jan-2014 28.5 Put,AAL140110P00028500,20140115,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,291
AAL 10-Jan-2014 29 Put,AAL140110P00029000,20140115,0.05,0.05,0.05,0.05,0,6728
AAL 10-Jan-2014 29.5 Put,AAL140110P00029500,20140115,0.3,0.3,0.3,0.3,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 30 Put,AAL140110P00030000,20140115,4.3,4.3,4.3,4.3,0,0
AAL 10-Jan-2014 32 Put,AAL140110P00032000,20140115,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,0,0
AAL 18-Jan-2014 0.5 Call,AAL140118C00000500,20140115,11,11,11,11,0,180
AAL 18-Jan-2014 1 Call,AAL140118C00001000,20140115,27.9,27.9,27.9,27.9,0,68
AAL 18-Jan-2014 2 Call,AAL140118C00002000,20140115,22.7,22.7,22.7,22.7,0,7
AAL 18-Jan-2014 3 Call,AAL140118C00003000,20140115,17.15,17.15,17.15,17.15,0,10
CONVERTED FILE:"<name>","<ticker>","<date>","<open>","<high>","<low>","<close>","<vol>","<oi>"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 23.5 Call","AAL4A10000230","20140115","1.85","1.85","1.85","1.85","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 24 Call","AAL4A10000240","20140115","5.8","5.8","5.8","5.8","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 24.5 Call","AAL4A10000240","20140115","2.05","2.05","2.05","2.05","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 25 Call","AAL4A10000250","20140115","2.3","2.3","2.3","2.3","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 25.5 Call","AAL4A10000250","20140115","1.35","1.35","1.35","1.35","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 26 Call","AAL4A10000260","20140115","3.4","3.4","3.4","3.4","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 26.5 Call","AAL4A10000260","20140115","2.65","2.65","2.65","2.65","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 27 Call","AAL4A10000270","20140115","2.26","2.26","2.26","2.26","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 27.5 Call","AAL4A10000270","20140115","1.75","1.75","1.75","1.75","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 28 Call","AAL4A10000280","20140115","1.45","1.45","1.45","1.45","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 28.5 Call","AAL4A10000280","20140115","0.9","0.9","0.9","0.9","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 29 Call","AAL4A10000290","20140115","0.4","0.4","0.4","0.4","0","0"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 29.5 Call","AAL4A10000290","20140115","0.05","0.05","0.05","0.05","0","4812"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 30 Call","AAL4A10000300","20140115","0.05","0.05","0.05","0.05","0","636"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 21.5 Put","AAL4B10000210","20140115","0.08","0.08","0.08","0.08","0","11"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 23 Put","AAL4B10000230","20140115","0.05","0.05","0.05","0.05","0","51"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 23.5 Put","AAL4B10000230","20140115","0.05","0.05","0.05","0.05","0","235"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 24 Put","AAL4B10000240","20140115","0.1","0.1","0.1","0.1","0","77"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 24.5 Put","AAL4B10000240","20140115","0.05","0.05","0.05","0.05","0","292"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 25 Put","AAL4B10000250","20140115","0.05","0.05","0.05","0.05","0","1380"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 25.5 Put","AAL4B10000250","20140115","0.02","0.02","0.02","0.02","0","1549"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 26 Put","AAL4B10000260","20140115","0.1","0.1","0.1","0.1","0","665"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 26.5 Put","AAL4B10000260","20140115","0.02","0.02","0.02","0.02","0","632"
"AAL 10-Jan-2014 27 Put","AAL4B10000270","20140115","0.05","0.05","0.05","0.05","0",”2161"

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