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THE WIN$EASY LOTTERY SYSTEM FOR WINDOWS
(C) Copyright 1992-1995 Charles F. Mowery, Jr.
406 Van Reed Manor Drive
Brandon FL 33511
Tel: (813) 689-4212
CompuServe (CIS) ID: 70040,145
Internet: 70040.145@compuserve.com
This file includes the following topics:
Program Overview Drawing Data and Game Configuration
Distribution Format Required Files
Automated Setup A Note About GRID.VBX
Manual Setup License Information
Running the Program Registration Information
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
In a typical 6/49 lotto game, the odds are 13,983,816 to 1 against
winning the big prize. Every "system" for winning the lottery is
designed to reduce those odds by using some method of recognizing or
anticipating the trends, patterns or coincidences that occur even in
random-selection drawings. WIN$EASY is designed to help you reduce
those odds by providing the analysis tools necessary for any winning
system, by providing the most common number-selection methods (such as
boxing and wheeling) and by providing several innovative number-
selection methods of its own -- for virtually any lottery in the
world. Plus, WIN$EASY makes playing any lottery easier and more fun
by automating data maintenance, drawing analysis, number selection,
and matching selections with drawings. It even provides an electronic
scratch pad for experimenting with lotto numbers and groups.
The primary functions in WIN$EASY include:
Configure the program for use with up to 99 different lotteries
per data base, reconfigure, add or delete games, change game
names, or select the active game.
Maintain a data base of the numbers drawn in each lottery.
Analyze the drawings in numerous ways.
Use a wide variety of number-selection techniques based on
drawing analysis, frequency, boxing, wheeling, hot and cold
numbers, permutations, play-slip patterns, numerology, the
zodiac, dice rolls, simulated lottery machines, and other
methods.
For lotto games that use playing cards instead of numbers, use
the playing-card conversion utility to convert drawings and
selections from cards to numbers and vice versa.
Perform error-free matching of your selections with the last
drawing(s) to identify winners, and save the auto-match report.
Use the scratch pad for experimenting with lotto numbers and
groups, save them in files for later use (you'll never need a
pencil and paper with this program), and transfer numbers from
other functions to the scratch pad and vice versa.
Maintain separate data bases for use by different players (you
can keep track of your spouse's selections separately from
yours).
Backup data files and retrieve the backups at any time.
Copy the drawings, selections, auto-match report and/or scratch
pad files to a printer.
View on-screen lists of all drawings, selected drawings, saved
selections and other items in filed order or sorted numerical
order.
Edit (add, change, delete or insert) filed drawings or
selections, add personal selections, purge duplicate selections
(with an option for deleting permutated duplicates for one-
number games), randomly delete any number of selections, or
delete an entire selections file.
View all documentation through an extensive, on-screen context-
sensitive help function.
WIN$EASY, used by winners since 1988 in its DOS version, has been
called "The best lottery program I've ever seen", and the Windows
version is even better! The Windows version handles lotto, keno,
power ball and wild card games that use numbers in any range from 1 to
80, that draw up to 22 numbers, including any bonus number, and in
which a selection can have from 2 to 22 numbers. It also handles one-
number (daily) games that use from 3 to 6 digits.
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DISTRIBUTION FORMAT
The system may be distributed in any of three setup formats:
automated, manual or custom. Some distributors of the system may
include their own customized setup instructions, in which case you
should follow those instructions. Otherwise, follow either the
automated or manual setup steps below.
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AUTOMATED SETUP
This is the installation procedure used for the registered version and
some distributions of the shareware version. If you received the
system on a disk (as opposed to downloading it from a BBS or other
source), place the disk in drive A: (or B:) and type DIR A: (or DIR
B:) and press Enter. If the directory listing includes the SETUP.EXE
file and most of the other file names have extensions that end in the
underline character (e.g. NUMER.DA_), then you MUST use the automated
setup procedure. File names ending with the underline character are
compressed and must be copied to your hard disk by the setup program.
1. Place the disk in drive A: (or B:).
2. Run Windows. (At the DOS prompt, type WIN and press Enter.)
3. In the Program Manager window, select FILE, then select
RUN from the drop-down list of options.
4. Depending on which drive has the distribution disk, type
either A:SETUP or B:SETUP and press Enter (or select OK).
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.
NOTE: See "A Note About GRID.VBX" below.
If you encounter any problems with the automated setup
procedure, you can still install the program manually, as
follows:
Your DOS files (probably in your C:\DOS directory)
should include a copy of the EXPAND.EXE program used
to uncompress files. Type EXPAND /? and press Enter
to see a summary of how to use that program or refer
to your DOS manual.
You must include the proper extension in the
destination file name. Expand only the following
files from the distribution disk:
Source File Name Destination File Name
VBRUN300.DL_ VBRUN300.DLL
GRID.VB_ GRID.VBX
WIN$EASY.EX_ WIN$EASY.EXE
WIN$EASY.HL_ WIN$EASY.HLP
WIN$EZ.CF_ WIN$EZ.CFG
NUMER.DA_ NUMER.DAT
DRAW1.DA_ DRAW1.DAT
DRAW2.DA_ DRAW2.DAT
DRAW3.DA_ DRAW3.DAT
DRAW4.DA_ DRAW4.DAT
The source path is the location of the distribution
disk, either drive A: or drive B:. The destination
path for VBRUN300.DLL and GRID.VBX must be your
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM subdirectory. For example:
EXPAND A:\VBRUN300.DL_ C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VBRUN300.DLL
The destination path for the other files should be
the directory from which you will run the WIN$EASY
program. (See step 2 under Manual Setup below.) For
example: