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- UK National Lottery Syndicate Checker Version 4.0
- (c) Twinjar Systems Limited 1994, 1995
- Release Date : 22nd March 1995
- Author : Nick Barnes
- Compuserve ID 100416,3553
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- This Program continues to be Freeware, just tell me if you find it useful,
- tell me if you have any suggested improvements.
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- (However I am open to offers for the rights to the program and source code)
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- New features in this version
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- Extended Toolbar
- Randomize Feature
- Syndicate Subscription Management
- Numbers Spread Analysis
- Draw History Facility
- Winnings History Facility
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- Installation
- ============
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- Copy SYNDCHEK.ZIP into it's own directory
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- Unzip the file
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- Create a new program item within Windows Program Manager.
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- Instructions
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- 1.0 Toolbar
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- Most commonly used functions are represented on the system toolbar.
- A button description will pop-up when the mouse is moved over each
- button.
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- 2.0 Syndicate Management
- ====================
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- On startup the program will automatically load the last synicate
- used.
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- To create a new Syndicate, choose "New Syndicate" from the "File"
- menu or press the "New Syndicate" button on the toolbar.
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- To load an existing Syndicate, choose "Open Syndicate..." from the
- "FILE" menu or press the "Open Syndicate" button on the toolbar.
- Select the required file from the file dialog which appears.
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- To save the current Syndicate, choose "Save Syndicate" from the
- "File" menu or press the "Save Syndicate" button on the toolbar.
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- To save the current Syndicate under a different name, choose
- "Save Syndicate As..." From the "File" menu. Choose a new name on
- the file dialog which appears.
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- 3.0 Entry Management
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- To Create a new entry in your syndicate choose "Create" from the
- "Entry" menu or press the "Create Entry" button on the toolbar. A
- dialog box will appear where you can key or randomize your
- draw selection.
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- To Delete an existing entry, click on the entry in the
- "Syndicate Numbers" box, and then choose "Delete" from the "Entry"
- menu or press the "Delete Entry" button.
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- 4.0 Odds Display
- ============
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- To display your odds against winning the National Lottery with your
- current draw selections, click the Odds button or select the odds
- menu item.
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- A dialog box will be displayed which shows your odds of each winning
- possibility.
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- 5.0 Numbers Analysis
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- To display an analysis of the selected numbers in your syndicate,
- click on the numbers analysis toolbar button or on the Numbers
- menu item.
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- A dialog box will be displayed which will list in order of popularity
- the frequency with which each of the 49 numbers have been selected.
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- 6.0 Subscription Management
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- Version 4 of syndicate manager allows a 'banked' number of draws to
- be stored along with each syndicate entry.
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- To display the subscription management dialog, click on the
- subscription toolbar button or click the subscription menu item.
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- Once displayed, the banked draws for each syndicate reference
- can be increased or decreased.
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- When a draw has taken place, you can save the results to the history
- file and reduce the subscription amounts by 1.
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- 7.0 History Management
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- Version 4 of syndicate manager allows a 'history' to be kept of
- past draws and results.
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- Click on the history toolbar button or the History menu item to
- display the history dialog.
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- By double clicking on any historic draw you may change the win
- amount and stake amount stored with it.
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- By clicking the delete button, you may remove a history item and
- optionally refund values to the banked subscription amounts.
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- 8.0 Draw Management
- ===============
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- The main syndicate manager screen allows the input of draw numbers.
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- As each draw number is input, the match results are displayed. Once
- a 7 different numbers have been input, the displayed results can
- be saved (by clicking the save button) to the history file with
- the option of decreasing the the banked subscription amounts
- for each entry. (See 6.0 & 7.0)
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