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The Scout series of programs are meant to assist you in pairing
off participants for the Pinewood Derby. The programs will randomly
pair off the children and ensure that each player races once in each
lane of the track. This creates an absolute sense of fairness and
also aids in the management of the races themselves. There are no
guarantees about the correctness of the programs. However, we have
used them since 1986 successfully and decided to share them free
with anyone else who is struggling to help their children enjoy
scouting. They handle from 2 to 9 lanes, but with more than 4,
the printout will wrap unless you use a width statment in program
scout2.bas. We have tested the programs with 400 participants, it
probably will handle much more.
If you have any questions or comments, please direct them either to
me or my father (both with the same name) at:
S. G. Benoit
PO Box 888467
Atlanta, GA 30356
These programs are being distributed as FREEWARE, paying back all
those who have also contributed without gain for themselves. We
only ask that you observe the copyright laws by leaving the programs
entact. Feel free to distribute them to anyone who can make good
use of them in a non-commercial manner. All commercial rights are
withheld and ownership remains with the author.
Instructions:
Everything takes place in the default directory, either on diskette
or on a hard disk.
Using EDLIN or your favorite text editor, place the participants
in a file called 'LIST' and then type SCOUT.
The batch file Scout.bat will execute several programs that will
randomly pair off the players and print out the following:
following:
Control List of Players by Heat by Lane
Control List of Heats by Player by Lane
and
Tickets to give each participant
The first report is used to manage the heats themselves, defining
who the participants are for each one.
The second report aids in informing anyone what heats a certain
player will be participating in.
The last report is in a format which allows you to cut into tickets
the output so that they may be given to each player. This gives the
child their own list of what heats they are in and what lane they
will use for that heat.
A sample 'LIST' file is included for your use called scout.lst.
Type scout4 scout.lst to display its contents.
Good Luck!