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- The Imphobia Voter PPE (c) Copyright 1995 Tasmaniac / ACiD / Hypernova
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- What
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- Imphobia is one of the most popular and most widely distributed
- disk-magazines covering the demoscene. One of the recurring items in
- Imphobia are the charts. These charts are supposed to give a good view
- of who's hot and who isn't <g>. The charts are based on votes given by
- people involved in the demo scene. To provide a consistent method for
- obtaining votes, this PPe was created on request by Darkness.
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- The PPE does what it is supposed to do... gather votes.
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- Requirements
- ------------
- - Some diskspace (depending on the amount of users that will vote). Each
- voting user adds about 3.5K to the voting database.
- - PCBoard 15.2 !
- This PPE will _NOT_ Run on previous versions of PCBoard. This is due
- to the compiler used (PPLC 3.0). The code is not PPLC 2.0 compatible
- and I don't intend to provide a PPLC 2.0 compatible version. If you
- don't run 15.2 or higher... Tough.
-
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- Installation
- ------------
- Installation is pretty simple.
-
- - Copy the voting PPE to a directory of your choice.
- - Install the PPE in the CMD.LST as a new command. VOTE seems an obvious
- choice, but you may already be using another voting system.
-
- The PPe will create a file IMP-VOTE.VOT which is located in the same
- drive and directory as where the PPE is located. For this reason, be
- sure you have installed the PPE on a harddrive and _NOT_ a RAM drive
- since this could lead to loosing all the votes.
-
- The voter is fully compatible with multinode operation, and can safely be
- installed on multiple nodes. Be sure however that in a multinode system,
- each node starts _THE_SAME_ PPe, failing to do so will be somewhat
- troublesome since you'll end up with multiple voting results.
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- The first time the PPe starts, you will receive an error message stating
- the Votes file does not exist. This is normal.
-
- To reset the votes, just delete the IMP-VOTE.VOT file.
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- Operation
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- To start the Voting PPE. The user has type the command you chose in the
- installation. The user will get some information first, and then drops
- to the voting topics. When all votes have been cast, the votes are saved
- in the voting file. When the user returns to the voting, he will have a
- chance to change/edit his previously cast votes.
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- Voting Results
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- If your BBS is not one of the Imphobia distribution sites, you can still
- install this PPe, and have the votes counted in the charts. All you need
- to do is attach the IMP-VOTE.VOT file to a message addressed to Ivan Darky
- (Darkness) on Genesis BBS (+32-2-2453498).
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- For Imphobia distribution sites. You may want to send to file to
- Darkness yourself, as he may be unable to come pickup the file himself.
- Afterall, calling all the Imphobia sites to collect the voting results
- could be a "bit" expensive <g>.
-
- Also be sure to send your .VOT file before the voting deadline (anounced
- in each Imphobia)
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- Warranties
- ----------
- None. Any damage resulting in the use or possession of this voting PPE
- are the sole responsability of the user.
-
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- History
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- 1.0 : Initial release
- 1.1 : Multinode fix. If multiple users who have not voted before enter
- the Voting PPE, only the last users' votes would be stored in the
- voting results.