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From: edw@pinot (Ed Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng,comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.misc,ba.general
Subject: Needed Advice on Software Publishing
Keywords: software publishing help lotto trend analysis
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Date: 31 Mar 88 05:50:11 GMT
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Having a more than passing interest in lottario I have
across the last year and a half written and polished what
I think is one heck of a fine trend analyzer for lotto games.
It is not designed to "pick the winner" but more as a tool that
helps the human make a sound decision as to what numbers may
come up in the next game.
I find it lets me hit hit 3 number winners (pay $1 win $5)
with good regularity. 4 numbers come along every so often.

Just to make a point (in advance) because I am a bit tired 
of the same trite jokers remarks over and over again.
The software does not:
generate lucky numbers
use astrology
just generate random numbers
predict based on the phase of the moon

The software does:
give decent trend analysis data
do pattern (scatter) plots
will make a suggestion based on an algorithm i designed.
          the alorithm is available to the user, at least
          on a conceptual level.
generates history reports in several formats
has easy data entry.

Its written in BASICA under MS-DOS, and yes I do like line numbers.

now for the big question.
I'd like to garner a few sheckles of this thing.
Im looking for suggestions, experiences, pitfalls etc.
Should I:
issue it as shareware ?
Offer it to a software house ?
Sell it on my own (dupilcate at home et al) ?
do something completely different ?

please  E-mail your input rather than clog the net, 
to be real honest i generally dont read the groups i'm
posting this to .
if i get enough responses, and anyone else is interested in the  results
I can either e-mail the compiled findings or post to the net.

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Thanks to all in advance
Ed Wright

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