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- QESTALLY.EXE
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- 1.0
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- Copyright (c) 1988
- R. Mike Worley
- Boise, Idaho
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- REGISTRATION & WARRANTY
-
- QESTALLY is not warranted in any way, nor is it applicable to any specific
- application. There are no known bugs in the program, but that doesn't mean you
- might not find one.
-
- QESTALLY is offered under the Shareware concept. You are free to try it to
- determine if it will meet your needs, and you are encouraged to upload program
- and documentation to bulletin boards. If you continue to use this program, you
- are asked to register. To register, complete this form and send it to the
- address listed. I am not requesting any registration fee, since it has been my
- experience that few fees are submitted, although I certainly won't turn down
- any reasonable donation. I do ask that you register just so I will have an
- idea of the level of usage of this program.
-
-
- Name:___________________________________________________________
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- Address:________________________________________________________
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- City:____________________ State:______ Zip Code:__________
-
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- Are you a SYSOP of an operating BBS? ( ) Yes ( ) No
-
- If Yes, what is the data phone number for the BBS? ___________________
-
-
- Complete and send to:
-
- R. Mike Worley
- P.O. Box 45321
- Boise, ID 83711
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-
- PROGRAM SUMMARY
-
-
- QESTALLY is a program to summarize data from bulletin board questionnaires
- developed for RBBS-PC. The program will tally the number of responses for
- multiple choice and yes/no questions, and will calculate a response percentage
- for each choice.
-
- QESTALLY will ignore questions requiring a text response, provided in-
- dividual the questions are named as outlined below. It will also skip
- questions for which there have been no responses, as sometimes occurs when the
- questionnaire follows different paths depending on answers to previous
- questions.
-
-
- DEFINING THE QUESTIONS
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- The RBBS-PC questionnaire is developed according to the directions in the
- RBBS-PC documentation. Each questionnaire is named with a filename of up to
- eight characters with a mandatory extension of .DEF. Questionnaires which will
- be summarized with QESTALLY must follow these guidelines:
-
- 1. The data file where the questionnaire responses are recorded MUST
- have an extension of .DAT
-
- 2. Multiple choice and yes/no questions MUST be designated by the
- label "QUESTION", followed by a two-digit question number. It is
- preferable, but not necessary, that single-digit question numbers
- by preceded by a zero. According to the questionnaire develop-
- ment criteria for RBBS-PC, labels are indicated by a colon (:).
-
- Therefore, multiple choice question number 2 would be labeled
- :QUESTION02
-
- To avoid conflicts, questions requiring text input should have a
- label other than "QUESTIONxx". See Examples.
-
- 3. QESTALLY will summarize up to 15 multiple-choice or yes/no
- questions per questionnaire, each with up to 8 choices. Multiple
- choice responses must be in the range A-H. QESTALLY is not case-
- sensitive to responses, so both upper and lower case responses are
- acceptable. Yes/no questions must have the "yes" response listed
- first. (Responses must be Y/N - True/False or T/F responses are not
- supported by QESTALLY.)
-
-
- RUNNING THE PROGRAM
-
- QESTALLY is a stand-alone executable program. It must exist on the same
- drive/subdirectory as the questionnaire data file. To start the program, type
- QESTALLY at the DOS prompt.
-
- QESTALLY will display its intro logo and ask for the name of the question-
- naire data file. You may enter either the filename alone, or with the
- extension of .DAT. If the filename is entered without an extension, QESTALLY
- will append .DAT to the filename.
-
- You will then be asked whether you want the output routed to a printer or
- to a file. The default is to the printer. If you select Printer, QESTALLY
- will direct its output to your default printer. If you select File, QESTALLY
- will direct its output to a file called QESTALLY.SUM. QESTALLY.SUM will be
- over-written each time the file output option is selected.
-
-
- EXAMPLES
-
- In the following example of an RBBS-PC questionnaire, the question :HOWMANY
- would be ignored by QESTALLY. The questionnaire outputs its information to a
- file called UPLOAD.DAT, which is the file that QESTALLY would use to summarize
- the responses to this questionnaire. (This example is not a complete question-
- naire)
-
- "UPLOAD.DAT",7
- *
- :QUESTION01
- *How long have you been a user of this BBS?
- *
- * A. New User (just signing on)
- * B. Less than 1 month
- * C. More than 1 month but less than 6 months
- * D. More than 6 months but less than 1 year
- * E. More than 1 year
- *
- ?Enter A, B, C, D, or E
- =AABORT=BHOWMANY=CHOWMANY=DHOWMANY=EHOWMANY= QUESTION01
- :HOWMANY
- *How many times do you estimate you have called this BBS?
- *
- ?
- :QUESTION02
- *
- *
- *Do you feel uploads should be allowed by all users. (Y/N)
- *
- ?
- =YQUESTION04=NQUESTION03= QUESTION02
- *
- :QUESTION03
- *
- *Since you do not feel that all users should upload, how do you feel about
- *uploads?
- *
- * A. The current policy should be maintained.
- * B. No user uploads are necessary.
- * C. I sign on here for the messages, not files.
- * D. All of the above
- * E. Both B and C
- *
- ?Enter A, B, C, D, or E
- =AEXIT=BEXIT=CEXIT=DEXIT=EEXIT= QUESTION03
- :QUESTION04
- *
- *There are several ways uploads can be handled. Do you support:
- *
- * A. All users should be required to upload in a certain proportion to
- * the number of files they download.
- * B. Users should be free to upload if they want, but should not be
- * restricted from the number of files they download if they do not
- * upload.
- * C. Users should only be allowed to upload after a certain 'trial period'
- * to be sure they will act responsibly.
- * D. I've reconsidered - I think uploads should be discouraged on this BBS.
- *
- ?Enter A, B, C, or D
- =AQUESTION05=BQUESTION07=CQUESTION06=DQUESTION03= QUESTION04
-
- ...
-
-
-
- This is an example of the output from QESTALLY. Again, this is only a
- partial display, and is intended only as an example.
-
-
- QESTALLY (c) UPLOAD.DAT 01-30-1988
- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 11:04
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- Question 1 Total Answers: 16
-
- Choice # Responding Percentage
-
- A or Y: 0 0.00 %
- B or N: 4 25.00 %
- C: 2 12.50 %
- D: 5 31.25 %
- E: 5 31.25 %
- F: 0 0.00 %
- G: 0 0.00 %
- H: 0 0.00 %
- ..............................................................................
-
- Question 2 Total Answers: 16
-
- Choice # Responding Percentage
-
- A or Y: 9 56.25 %
- B or N: 7 43.75 %
- C: 0 0.00 %
- D: 0 0.00 %
- E: 0 0.00 %
- F: 0 0.00 %
- G: 0 0.00 %
- H: 0 0.00 %
- ..............................................................................