Subject: File No. S7-05-00
Date:    04/02/2000 6:49 PM
     
     
I have been using Spredgar now for over two years and find the 
information it provides invaluable for the graduate business classes I 
am taking.  If you remove the primary components the program uses  to 
calculate ratios, you will severely limit the information I depend on. 
I request that you do not remove Financial Data Schedules (FDS) 
information from the Edgar filings.

This program provides significant information at a very reasonable price 
that is critical for ratio analysis of the companies I analyze for class 
projects.

Ralph Pecora,
Salem State College, Salem, MA