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Re: Converting AOL stock quotes to Q4Win

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On Monday, January 16, 1995 10:27:29 PM UTC-6, MItchell Matorin wrote:
> i've seen folks asking about a way to convert aol style stock quotes for 
> importation into quicken.  today i stumbled across a shareware program 
> available on aol, called quickstock.  the archive is named quickstk.zip 
> (i believe), and it's in the financial apps section.  if you do a 
> quickfind search for that file name you should find it.  anyway, it 
> claims that when you run the program, it automatically calls up your 
> WAOL program, runs it, gets your stock portfolio, signs off, converts 
> the aol to quicken format, calls up quicken, imports the data, and then 
> either closes quicken or keeps it running, as you specify.  i just d/l 
> it and ran it.  it seemed to work fine up to the point where it was 
> supposed to call up my quicken program; i haven't figured out what the 
> problem is yet, but haven't had a chance to make sure i had the settings 
> right.  anyway, it's there if you want to take a look at it (it's got a 
> rather ingenious shareware nag as well--makes you type in a long, random 
> number once it signs on to aol before it'll proceed--not as easy to 
> defeat as a simple "ok" button to push . . . .).  if it works, it'd be 
> great.  
> 
> --mitch

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