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Regulars/StarInfo/Allison/!Lottery/!Help
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Application : !Lottery
Help for Version 1.0 : (5 April 1995)
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Many people think that forming a group to enter the National Lottery
increases their chances of winning a big prize.
This Application is designed to make checking your National Lottery
multiple entries easy. To enter your own numbers, Press <Shift> while
clicking <select> on the !Lottery icon. Drag the file "Syndicate" into "!Edit".
The first line contains the total number of lottery entries,each line
thereafter is a separate lottery entry.
On running the application the main window allows the entry of this
weeks numbers, clicking on "OK" calculates your winnings.
Also on the main window a Randomise option allows the generation of one
random set of balls. The "Random 100 Entries" button calculates the prizes
for a 100 sets of random balls, a few goes at this option may cause you to
stop investing!
Pressing "Menu" on the mouse gives options affecting the operation
of the button previously mentioned.If "Display" is Ticked as numbers are
calculated they are shown. If not Ticked the final result appears much sooner.
"Entries" leads to a writeable icon allowing the number of entries (weeks)
to be altered.
Also in the main menu, Statistics leads to a window giving information about
the Lottery results so far (held in 'History' file, inside the Application, to get up
to date all Lottery numbers are on BBC2 CeeFax Page 750).
Clicking on "Re-Order" option icon in the Stats window swaps between number
and frequency drawn order.
Clicking on "Incude Bonus Ball" option icon in the Stats window chooses if the
bonus ball (The 7th number drawn every week) is included in the calculations.
On quitting !Lottery you are asked if you wish to add the numbers currently
shown in the main window to the History database, this is also a menu option
from the main window.
Best of luck! Bugs etc. complain to Stuart Allison,
61 The Avenue,
LONDON W13 8JR
Other problems complain to Camelot PLC !!
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Bugs etc. c| 00000850 6f 6d 70 6c 61 69 6e 20 74 6f 20 53 74 75 61 72 |omplain to Stuar| 00000860 74 20 41 6c 6c 69 73 6f 6e 2c 0a 20 20 20 20 20 |t Allison,. | 00000870 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | * 00000890 20 20 20 20 36 31 20 54 68 65 20 41 76 65 6e 75 | 61 The Avenu| 000008a0 65 2c 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |e,. | 000008b0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | | 000008c0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 4c 4f 4e 44 | LOND| 000008d0 4f 4e 20 57 31 33 20 38 4a 52 0a 0a 20 20 20 20 |ON W13 8JR.. | 000008e0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 4f 74 68 65 72 20 | Other | 000008f0 70 72 6f 62 6c 65 6d 73 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 61 69 |problems complai| 00000900 6e 20 74 6f 20 43 61 6d 65 6c 6f 74 20 50 4c 43 |n to Camelot PLC| 00000910 20 21 21 20 0a | !! .| 00000915
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