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- -=( PackVote 1.0 )=-
-
- PackVote is the maintainance program for the VoteDoor. It moves old questions
- to the history file and posts results to the user who asked the original
- question.
-
- Parameters:
- ===========
-
- -VOTES:<MaxVotes>
-
- Delimits the number of votes on a question. VoteDoor uses an internal
- list of 500 entries to keep track of who already voted. The default
- value for this parameter is 450 votes. When a question is remove The
- results are copied to the history file.
-
- -DAYS:<NoDays>
-
- Delimits the number of days a question stays in the VoteDoor. After the
- given amount of days the question is removed. The results are copied to
- the history file.
-
- -AREA:<AreaNr>
-
- PackVote has the ability to send a message to the user who asked the
- question. This parameter defines the area in which the message is
- posted. See also the info on the "POSTMSG.<Language>" later in this
- documentation. No area means no posting of messages. The AreaNr has
- to be between 1 and 200. An illegal areanr aborts the program.
-
- -PRV
-
- If this parameter is used, the result messages are posted as private
- messages.
-
- -NOMIX
-
- If this parameter is used, PackVote makes different historyfiles for
- different languages. In that case you also should use the -NoMix
- parameter on the VoteDoor commandline!
-
- -MSG<path to msgbase directory>
-
- If you want to post the results you need thisone! It tells PackVote
- where to find the msgbase.
-
- -ML
- If you run a multiline system and want to post the results, you need
- thisone to! When found on the commandline, PackVote implements
- messagebase locking..
-
-
- POSTED.<LANGUAGE>
- =================
-
- Posted.<Language> contains the messagebody for resultmessages which are send
- to the users when their question is removed. The default language is
- english. So you should at least prepare a file POSTED.ENG if you want to use
- this feature. The language used is the language the user had selected at the
- moment he posted the question. If no POSTED.<Lang> is found for that language
- the english message is used.
-
- In the messagebody you can use a number of macro's. Except for the
- %%QUESTION and %%RESULT macro's they may appear whereever you like.
- The %%QUESTION and %%RESULT macro can be anywhere on a line, but other
- contents of the line are lost!
-
- %%TO The name of the user who asked the question
- %%DAYS The number of days since the question was posted
- %%DATE The date the question was posted
- %%COUNT The total number of votes on the question
- %%PROG "VoteDoor 5.0"
- %%QUESTION The question (3 lines!)
- %%RESULT The results (5 lines!)
-
-
- Last remarks:
- =============
-
- - Run PackVote from the same directory as where the VoteDoor itself can be
- found, OR set the VOTE= environment variable. Otherwise PackVote can't find
- the supportfiles and datafile!
-
- - The historyfile isn't realy readable for humans. It's intended to be
- read from within VoteDoor.
-
- - If your msgbase is important, you better back it up! The routines I used
- for this program are tested, the program is tested (At releasetime) but
- still.. See the disclaimer in the votedoor documentation!
-
-