LOTTO --- a random name drawing utility
			   by Michael Groshart
		      Amiga Users of the Heartland
			     Omaha, Nebraska.

	LOTTO is designed to replace your user group's old shoebox full of
membership numbers and names while it adds some pizzaz to the process of
drawing for doorprizes at club meetings.  After a particularly cumbersome
incident involving the aforementioned shoebox, AUoH President Jim Piunti,
half jokingly, mentioned that it'd be nice to have a program to do this.
In a few days, Mike Groshart came to the rescue with LOTTO.

	I've uploaded it here with the caveat that LOTTO is VERY SPECIALIZED
in its behavior.  It places on the screen a giant three-digit "LED" display,
and when activated by pressing the space bar, provides some mighty exciting
visual and aural stimulation.  While it waits for the operator to stop the
display, it fetches a random membership number and corresponding name dir-
ectly from our SuperBase database file (HERE'S where it gets specialized).
When the operator halts the fireworks with another press of the space bar,
the selected member's number is displayed and his name scrolled across the
bottom of the screen.  LOTTO also sends that information back to the start-
ing CLI in case you want to keep a record of all names/numbers drawn for
some strange purpose (like publishing a "crying towel" column in your news-
letter).

	Now understand that unless your group, by some astronomically slim
chance, has set up your SuperBase file exactly the same as we have ours,
you're going to have to diddle with this program to get it to read yours.
Source is included to allow you to do just that.  Heck, you might even wanna
install a nifty "front end" routine to allow it to be easily customized to
fit anybody's database routines.  If so, be sure to send us a copy (that's
the only "shareware" fee requested).  A sample of our membership database
".sbf" file is included just to confuse you.  The downside of having to
customize this software before you use it is more than offset by the fact
that you WON'T have to create a special report every month just for your
drawing;  simply feed LOTTO the raw database and it'll yank what it needs!