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- Lottery v1.1
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- By Matt N. Marsh
- matt.marsh@bigfoot.com
- http://www.matt.oaktree.co.uk/
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- Contents
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Installation and Use
- 3. New Versions
- 4. Bug Reports
- 5. Distribution and Usage Policy
- 6. History
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- 1. Introduction
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- Lottery is a free palm application for checking your lottery tickets.
- Anyone who has many tickets, such as those in a lottery syndicate, will
- know how much trouble it is to go through all the tickets checking them
- against the week's winning numbers. This program will do all that work
- for you by checking all of the tickets and telling you which ones have
- won anything.
-
- This current version is modelled around the lottery in the UK and as
- such it handles tickets containing six numbers of between one and
- fourty nine. Six main numbers and a bonus number are drawn each time
- the lottery is played and the winning combinations are three, four,
- five or six main numbers or five main numbers and the bonus ball. In
- the future I would like to extend my program to be configurable for
- any lottery system so I would appreciate any information detailing
- the lotteries in your area so that I can make sure that it will be
- able to handle them.
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- 2. Installation and Use
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- Once you have downloaded and unpacked the archive you should have a file
- called Lottery.prc in your directory. Install this file onto your Palm
- Pilot in the usual way using the 'Install Tool' or similar which comes
- with the Palm Pilot. Once installed an icon with the label 'Lottery'
- should appear in your application list.
-
- The Lottery application works very much like standard Palm applications
- such as MemoPad. From the main screen, tap 'New' to add a new ticket.
- Once a ticket has been entered you can edit it by tapping on the entry
- for it in the list. From the edit screen you can change any of the
- numbers, change the category or delete the ticket. Tapping the 'Check'
- button on the main screen will let you check the tickets in the current
- category against the weeks results. You will be prompted to enter the
- winning numbers and then the tickets will be checked. You can customize
- the result display from the 'Prefences' menu on the main screen.
- Because only the tickets in the current category are checked when you
- hit the 'Check' button, you can group your tickets into different
- categories for different competitions. For example you may want to
- create one category for Saturday tickets and another for Wednesday
- tickets in the UK lottery. To check all tickets just select the 'All'
- category.
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- 3. New Versions
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- The newest version of Lottery will always be available from my website:
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- http://www.matt.oaktree.co.uk/computing/lottery.shtml
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- so check back there from time to time to look out for updates. Also from
- the same web page you can submit your email address so that you will be
- automatically sent an email when new versions become available.
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- 4. Bug Reports
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-
- If you find any faults in either the application itself or its
- documentation then I would be really grateful if you could report them
- to me by email at matt.marsh@bigfoot.com. If you could include the
- version number of the program you are running (this can be found from
- the 'About' dialog box) then that would also be helpful.
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- 5. Distribution and Usage Policy
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-
- You are permitted to use this program free of charge. You may also
- distribute it in any way and may even charge for it's distribution if
- you wish, however you must not modify the software and all copyright
- notices must remain in tact. You must obtain written permission for use
- or distribution other than detailed here.
-
- BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
- FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT
- WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER
- PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
- EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
- PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME
- THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
-
- IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
- WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
- REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR
- DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
- DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM
- (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
- INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE
- OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH
- HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
- DAMAGES.
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- 6. History
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- Version 1.1
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- - Fix bug causing a crash when last ticket in a category was deleted
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- Version 1.0 - 14th December 2000
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- - Initial Version
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-