I read this a few days ago and have been thinking about it and to me, it just looks like way too much -- too complicated, too much work. I guess that for now, I'll have to accept being only able to update my local games as that just doesn't look like it's going to work for me. And, of course, it makes me appreciate and miss LD more than ever.

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We will do whatever is helpful.

We can supply a utility program that will update LD game files from a plain text file.

It would be a free program -- a courtesy to LD players.

But the player would still need to download the 'official' game results from the game's web site, and then put them into a plain text file.

Then the player could run the utility program which would update the LD game file.

When you consider it, that doesn't really save a lot of time. It's simply easier for a player to punch in the local game's numbers by keyboard and mouse.

A week's set of numbers -- two draws, seven draws, depending on the game -- can be easily entered at the keyboard in less than a minute.

Also it's a good idea to stay 'close' to your game, by seeing what each set of numbers does in your tracking.

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If the 'update' utility program would be helpful, we'll be happy to put it up online. It would be a free download.

Considering it for the player, it wouldn't save any time.

It's just a question of how you want to spend a couple of minutes:

... Copying the results from a game's "official" web site, and formatting them into a plain text file, then running a program to update your software;

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... Punching in the latest numbers yourself, at your keyboard.

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The first option means, you'll go to a game's web site, and copy their numbers into a 'text' file, then run a utility program that updates your game. Still, takes a couple of minutes to do it.

Right now the way to do it is the second option -- get the game's numbers and put them into the software yourself. Takes only a couple of minutes to do it.

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One favors Ace's post -- it's simpler, and more direct, to just keep track of your game yourself.

There aren't any more automatic updates. That terminated with the software retirement.

Still, players could share game files freely, if they like to do so.

If you need game files for another State or country, feel free to ask other players to share them.

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We'll do whatever players like.

Players are encouraged to post messages here.


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Either one of the options in this thread would probably work for most players. If there were a pay service for, say, monthly updates that would work. I routinely visit other states which I do not keep up regularly. The ability to get an recent up to date data file would be a significant benefit. The last updates for data files are January 2012. If I were to go to Jersey for a few days and wished to try my luck there it would require entry of 3 months of data. If the data were done monthly that effort would be less not to think of the need later in the year. Whatever facility that you would provide would be appreciated by Lottery Director users.

Joe Collins

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Look for a utility program to be announced here. It will be a freeware program.

It can be used to update LD game files from a plain text file. It should be ready at the end of April.


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Further to my post above. If Joe is providing such a utility this website can be used to get your results easily. http://www.lottery.com/results/past_draws.cfm/stateID

You will need to do a bit of editing to get it into the right format and obtain the results in chunks, but I have managed to get several complete histories using it.

To create, I usually copy to notepad, then edit the notpade file using excel (or similar - openoffice.org do a free excel type program which works as well) to strip out unwanted text and add preceding zeros etc.

This could then be run through Joe's program. It may seem time-consuming at first but it is still much quicker than entering them manually.

Also first check at the official websites of the games you are interested in. Many of them have complete downloadable histories that you could edit and use very quickly.

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