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- What's New file for -=< FrEevOtE >=-
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- v3.1 (minor release, I dunno felt like it) (4/4/96)
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- * The reset option in question editor now also alows you to have everybody
- vote on the question again
- * The total votes is now displayed in the question editor.
- * Erase Answer option in the question editor.
- * Userfile saving routine better (well more space-saving)
- * Users could not add answers bug fixed!!!!!
-
- v3.0 (major release, due to me being a bit bored) (3/31/96)
- ===========================================================
-
- * Question editor.
- * Compiled with the new version of Opendoors (6.00)
- * A bug in adding answers fixed.
- * Much kewler local logon window.
- * Sysop now sees if the question was posted anonymously.
- * AddSecurity .cfg file keyword added, to limit which security group can add
- questions.
- * MinSecurity .cfg file keyword added, to limit who has access to the door.
- * -S command line option added to override user security.
- * Send some money to see more and more features here. I'm tired of working for
- free:) ... So to see this door grow send a donation!
-
- v2.8 (minor release, due to requests)
- =====================================
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- * Bad users file. If you want to lock a user out of the door just create
- a file called BADUSERS.TXT and put the names there, one on each line!
- * Automatic terminal emulation autodetection, you can turn it off to speed
- up processing by using the -NAD argument!
- * You can now post forced questions as the sysop!
- * Small potential bug fixed when writing flags for new questions.
- * The door is now more rip aware, it actually works well under RIP ...
- * Names have now leading spaces and trailing spaces trimmed for security!
-
- v2.7 (minor release, due to requests)
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- * -FC count questions command line option .... counts questions only and then
- quits ...
- * Ya can disable the paging option and it will also not be visible if it's
- outside paging hours.
- * Ya can now restrict users to create multiple answer questions (check all
- that aplies type questions) in the .cfg file.
- * Ya can restrict anonymous posting in the .cfg file.
- * For adding answers ya can select if users should not have the option or
- leave it up to the question creator or make it forced.
- * There is an option so that the creator now may allow one user to add more
- than one answer if he allows adding answers to his question. you can restrict
- this option to never be used or to be forced, just like above.
- * You can now set it so that if a user creates a question it allows him to
- view it's results even if he hasn't voted on it yet.
-
- v2.6 (just a rerelease, changed something)
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-
- * Since the request for the -FQ said absolutely no messages and there was
- the one with the you have voted on all questions so i killed it and gave
- him another ver .. but i didn't checnge the ver # so it's still v2.6
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- v2.6 (minor release)
- ====================
-
- * Redone the question saving so that if user quits while voting on a multiple
- vote questions it won't record the vote.
- * Also redone some voting and chaging votes routines for more stability on
- multiple nodes!
- * This made the voting and changing votes stable if two nodes are voting on
- the same questions, which would now not cause problems (theoretically)....
- * Made the multiple voting nicer and easier to vote.
- * Added another vote forcing, -FQ, force quiet same as -f but no messages,
- just questions, or request.
- * On -FNQ and -FA I made not entering freevote after voting the default,
- on request
- * Sysop access level can now allways view results of questions they have
- not yet answered.
- * I view unsnaswered was set up there was a display bug on view resluts of
- all.
-
- v2.5 (bugfix release)
- =====================
-
- * Whoops! v2.4 added a bug that would not allow for the creation of new
- user file so if you did not use it before it was impossible to use it ...
- sorry guys ...
-
- v2.4 (bugfix release)
- =====================
-
- * A major bug fixed which caused a userfile copyover and user deletes if
- there were more than 38 users! .. This is a serious BUG ... Install this
- version as soon as possible!
-
- v2.3 (minor release)
- ====================
-
- * Better time slice releasing! Will work much better under multitaskers!
- * If -FA is used it now asks the user if he wants to enter the door once he
- has voted on the new questions, instead of kicking him in there.
- * Whoops forgot to put the paging config into the .cfg file it is there now!
- there are hours of the day and the page duration!
-
- v2.2 (minor release)
- ====================
-
- * Answers are now separated by alternating form cyan to yellow for easier
- reading, but it can be turned back to green only in the .cfg file!
- * You now allow users to change their vote but not to mark questions as
- unanswered!
-
- v2.1 (minor release)
- ====================
-
- * Bug fixed in marking questions already voted on. Only occured when user
- decided to mark a question he added answer to, to mark as unanswered
- * -FA Command line parameter. A nice force. Counts the new questions and asks
- the user if he wants to go vote on those topics or quit.
-
- v2.0 (major release)
- ====================
-
- * The graph has the highest percentage as top, not 100%
- * When voting on all new user can [S]kip a question
- * You don't get kicked outta the delete menu after deleting a question, so you
- can delete as many as you want.
- * Some displays are made to look better
- * Questions being added require at last two answers!
- * -F command line argument. Forces the user to vote on all new questions when
- he enters the door and then asks him if he wants to enter the door.
- * -FNQ command line argument, it forces the user to answer all new questions,
- and he cannot quit nor skip any question. after that it will not ask him
- if he wants to enter the door but it will quit automatically. this overides
- the -F argument.
- * The question file is now packed every time when the door is run and it finds
- deleted questions to prevent full file error. You have to run "freevote -m"
- to run it's maintanance though. This should be run every day!
- * You can edit after how many days a question should be deleted.
- * The userfile is now packed to prevent it growing too long.
- * Run the RESET.BAT to delete all questions!
- * -N command line argument. Selects node. Node only used in the status line.
- * -LOG command line argument, turns on file logging.
- * The answers can now be in 2 or 1 line format. The creator of the question
- chooses that. If two line mode is enabled for the question only 7 answers
- can be added.
- * The questions may be set to allow the user to vote for more than one answer
- per question.
- * Users can add questions anonymously. Sysop access level users will allways
- see the creator anywayz.
- * Sysop access level users can add questions which will never be deleted
- for being old.
- * The highest percentage is now red on the graph!
- * The question maximum raised to 400!
- * User can delete their own questions if the sysop allows it.
- * Users can change their vote to a question, if the syop allows it.
- * Users can set a question as ununswered if changing of question answers is
- allowed!
- * The door can read either hanldes or real names from the dropfile!
- * The door should now have no problem with RIP users getting ASCII!
- * -RDBPS command line argument. Forces the game to read the locked port rate.
- This was default in the past and had caused problems!.
- * Bug with -p command line argument found in version one fixed!
- * Sysop access level users can see who created the question BEFORE they vote
- on it.
-
- v1 (major release)
- ==================
-
- I have not recorded all the changes from EZVote 5 which it was made from!
- But there was a lot, especially:
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- * Vote on all and see results of all questions
- * 300 questions
- * better displays
- * killed the logoff option
- * added better local login parameter.
- * better command line parameters than EZVote
- * more ... can't remember!
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