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- *FastVote(tm)* - The Multi-Compatible BBS Voting System by Kito D. Mann
- Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 CollisionWare(tm) Premium SoftWare
- Released December 12, 1992
- Zipfile last updated December 14th, 1992
- FVOTE330.ZIP
- ~07
- ===============================================================================
- FastVote is a colorful and easy to use voting program written for
- Fido, Opus, QuickBBS, RemoteAccess, WildCat, RBBS, WWIV, PCBoard and
- other bulletin board systems. It is one of the most powerful voting
- systems available simply because it has a lot of useful features and
- remains very configurable and expandable.
-
- Features include:
-
- * Full Desqview support
- * Compatibility with most major BBS systems
- * Ability to handle up to 100 voting booths
- * Up to 40 choices per voting booth
- * SysOp-controlled access level defaults
- * Multiple configuration files
- * Multi-Node support
- * Full-fledged interrupt-driven communications routines
- * Internal ANSI driver (for faster screen writes)
- * Optional writing to a selected log file
- * Local test mode
- * Optional changing of original votes
- * Colorful ANSI graph results
- * Ability to vote or view results for all booths with one keystroke
- * Complete Booth Editing, Creating, and Deleting functions
- built-in
- * All data files are plain ASCII text files for easy editing
- * Easy to use setup utility (FVSETUP)
- * Full-fledged SysOp functions (including on-line chat, shell-to-DOS,
- and others)
- * Both FVSETUP.EXE and FASTVOTE.EXE have been compressed with PKLITE in
- order to conserve disk space
- * And much more...
- ===============================================================================
-
- The following files should be included in this FastVote distribution zipfile:
-
- FILE_ID.DIZ - File description for PCBoard systems
-
- FASTVOTE.EXE - FastVote v3.30 (Release) executable
- FASTVOTE.DOC - Documentation for FastVote
- README!!.COM - Last minute notes and Quick Startup information
- FVSETUP.EXE - FastVote Setup Utility (edits FASTVOTE.CFG)
- SODA.VTE - Sample voting booth
- FAVORITE.VTE - Sample voting booth
- THISBBS.VTE - Sample voting booth
- THISBBS.DOC - Sample voting booth description
- FASTLEV.INF - Access level control file (for important commands)
- FASTVOTE.CFG - Default Configuration file for FastVote
- FASTVOTE.NEW - List of changes to FastVote since v1.00 (Appendix B)
- FASTBULL.ANS - ANSI FastVote bulletin file (optional)
- FASTBULL.TXT - Text FastVote bulletin file (optional)
- FASTVOTE.ANS - ANSI welcome screen
- SAMPLE.BAT - Sample batch file
- LOCAL.BAT - Sample local test batch file
-
- FVMENU.TX1 - Sample ASCII Menu (rename FVMENU.TXT to use)
- FVMENU.AN1 - Sample ANSI Menu (rename FVMENU.ANS to use)
-
- FVUPDATE.ZIP - FastVote version converter (1.x or 2.0 to 3.2) zipfile
- (originally by John Mann II)
- FASTBULL.ZIP - FastVote bulletin generator zipfile
- (by Joe Reeves)
-
- REGISTER.DOC - Information on registration
- REGISTER.FRM - Complete registration form
- VENDOR.DOC - Excerpt from FASTVOTE.DOC outlining distribution guidelines
-
- CWFILES.COM - List of all CollisionWare(tm) Releases
- ===============================================================================
-
- FastVote v3.30 is a minor update. Numerous small bug fixes and minor
- changes were made, as well as added desqview code. The main documentation
- file has not been updated, but the registration files have in order to
- include a new support/registration site in the United Kingdom. Also, support
- for registration through major credit cards through PsL's 800 number is also
- available. For details, take a look at REGISTER.DOC. For more information on
- updates to the code, take a look at FASTVOTE.NEW.
-
- UPGRADING
- =========
- If you are upgrading from version 2.x or 1.x please unzip the included
- zipfile FVUPDATE.ZIP and run the accompanying .EXE file. To update from
- an earlier v3.xx release, just copy the new FASTVOTE.EXE, FASTVOTE.ANS and
- FASTVOTE.TXT files over the old.
-
- FAST SETUP (new users)
- ======================
- If you'd like to skip the documentation and get right to the setup,
- you're going to miss a lot of the unobvious features, as well as
- command line parameters. But, if you insist, the first thing to do is
- edit the FASTVOTE.CFG file to meet your needs. This can be done either
- with FVSETUP or a text editor. It should be perfectly self-explanatory.
- Afterwards, it is recommended that you run the program from your BBS
- using an exit-to-DOS door function unless a DOS shell would supply from
- 200-250k of memory.
- The command line should be:
-
- FASTVOTE.CFG [config.cfg] /PC:\BBS
-
- Where C:\BBS is where your user info file is stored.
- Where [config.cfg] is the optional name of the config file;
- (default is FASTVOTE.CFG).
-
- Other command line parameters can be found in FASTVOTE.DOC (there are many).
-
-
- Kito D. Mann,
- President, CollisionWare(tm) Premium SoftWare
-
- ~09 Collision Theory(tm) BBS * 24 HOURS * (703)503-9441
-
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