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C:\WinPHI40\WinPHI40.exe.
STARTING WINPHI—APPROVAL OF DISCLAIMER
After installation is complete, run
the WINPHI program from the Win-
dows Start menu using the sequence
Start > Run > C:\WinPHI40\
WinPHI40.exe
—or use the short-
cut to the executable f ile that you
have newly created on your desktop.
On startup of the WINPHI pro-
gram, a copyright disclaimer is
brought up. Read through the in-
formation carefully and 
Acknowl-
edge
the disclaimer by left-clicking
the button to get to the WINPHI
main screen.
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USER MANUAL WINPHI: GETTING STARTED
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CONFIGURING COMMA DELIMITED ASCII FILES
WINPHI only reads data f iles that are formatted as ASCII coded text
f iles (comma delimited). The sets of data 
must not contain headers
to def ine column content.
Daily, weekly, or monthly data f iles must contain the f ive necessary
data f ields Date—Open—High—Low—Close in exactly the given f ield
order. Moreover, it is important to pay attention to the date format of
the data records. The WINPHI program recognizes dates in the Amer-
ican format, which is
mm /dd /yyyy
(
mm
for
month, 
dd
for day, and
yyyy
for year). The
year must be in four-
digit format. Daily,
weekly, and monthly
data f iles bear the ex-
tension 
*.txt.
Intraday data f iles must contain the six necessary data f ields Date—
Time—Open—High—Low—Close in exactly the given field order. More-
over, it is important to pay attention to the date format of the data
records. The WINPHI
program recognizes dates
in the American for-
mat, which is