Launch 3rd Party Software
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When using Unfair Advantage to retrieve daily updates that will be analyzed by a third-party software program, you may find it convenient to automatically launch your analysis program after the retrieval session. Unfair Advantage facilitates this operation through a prompt on the Distribution 2 screen of Preferences, shown below.


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To use this feature, type the command line of the appropriate program in the text box. A command line includes the drive designator for the desired program (probably c: or d:), the program's directory (folder) name and the name of the executable file (ending in .exe). This would be the prompt that starts the program. Each section of the command line is separated by a backslash (\). For example, you would enter C:\QUICK\QT.EXE to launch CSI's QuickTrieve program.

Here's an example for MetaStock:

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