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- RIP Voting Booth
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- COPYRIGHT 1993 T&J Software
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- One of the T&J Software Collection of multi-BBS door programs.
- Supporting PCBoard, Wildcat!, Gap, QBBS, RBBS, Spitfire,
- UltraBBS, Telegard, TriBBS, Remote Access, and WWIV
-
- VERSION 1.0
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- June 27, 1993
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- By
-
- Tom & Jane Wildoner
- 397 West Broadway
- Jim Thorpe, PA
- 18229
- VOICE (717)325-9480
- *between 5:30 & 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time
-
- From
-
- The T&J BBS
- (717)325-9481
- 1200/2400/9600/19200/38400
- 24 Hours/Day
-
-
- LATEST VERSION
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Please call the T&J BBS for the latest version of this program.
-
-
- LEGALITIES
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- THIS SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS ARE DISTRIBUTED "AS IS" WITHOUT
- WARRANTY, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- IN NO EVENT SHALL ANYONE INVOLVED WITH THE CREATION AND PRODUCTION OF THIS
- PRODUCT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING
- OUT OF ANY USE THEREOF OR BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY. ONCE REGISTERED, ANY
- DISTRIBUTION OF THE REGISTERED KEY WILL INVALIDATE YOUR KEY IN ALL FUTURE
- VERSIONS OF THIS PROGRAM AND NO PRODUCT SUPPORT WILL BE GIVEN. DISTRIBUTING
- A REGISTERED KEY FILE WILL ALSO BRING ABOUT CRIMINAL CHARGES.
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- You may make this file available for downloading from your BBS or you may
- upload it to any BBS of your choice, provided that you do not make any
- changes to the contents of the archive (ZIP file). The archive and its
- individual contents may not be used by any service that charges any money
- whatsoever, without the written permission of the author.
-
-
- PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Welcome to T&J Software's RIP Voting Booth! RIP Voting Booth allows
- you to place up to 10 RIP Graphics Screens on display for your
- users to vote on. Great for online competition between users!
-
- The voting option is disabled until registered.
-
-
- ADDITIONAL NOTES
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This door does not expire! The door cannot be run "locally" by typing
- RIPVOTE LOCAL as with other doors from T&J Software.
-
-
- FEATURES
- ^^^^^^^^
- > Desqview Aware.
- > COM1-15 support and non-standard IRQ's.
- > Colorful RIP screens.
- > NO BRUN module needed for play.
- > Will return to BBS on dropped carrier.
- > Will TIMEOUT a player after 5 minutes of no activity.
- > Mouse support.
- > Use of HOT KEYS while in the door.
- > Support BBS available.
- > SysOp configurable.
- > Fossil Driver support.
- > Easy setup via the RIPUTIL program.
- > Supports all BBS types!
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Run the RIPUTIL.EXE program!!
-
- Next, RESET the DOOR!! Select number 1 from the UTILITY menu! This
- will reset everything from scratch.
-
- Next, select number 2 from the UTILITY menu and setup the RIP screens
- for your users to vote on --- RVB ships all ready with 10 RIP Graphic
- Screens to get you started!
-
- Next, select number 3 and set up the RIPVOTE.CFG file -- answer all the
- questions here.
-
- Finally, select number 4 to toggle the local display on or off. If
- your running a non RIP BBS package you may want to toggle the local
- display OFF or you will see nothing but garbage on the local monitor.
- Don't worry about it, the remote user is seeing things fine!
-
-
- CONFIGURATION (Your RIPVOTE.CFG file)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Example configuration file for PCBOARD.SYS
- ------------------------------------------
- C:\PCB\PCBOARD.SYS <=- (Full pathname of your PCBOARD.SYS file)
- T&J Software <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
- Tom <=- (The Sysop's first name)
- Wildoner <=- (The Sysop's last name)
-
- Example configuration file for USERS.SYS
- ----------------------------------------
- C:\PCB\USERS.SYS <=- (Full pathname of your USERS.SYS file)
- T&J Software <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
- Tom <=- (The Sysop's first name)
- Wildoner <=- (The Sysop's last name)
-
- Example configuration file for DOOR.SYS
- ---------------------------------------
- C:\BBS\DOOR.SYS <=- (Full pathname of your DOOR.SYS file)
- T&J Software <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
- Tom <=- (The Sysop's first name)
- Wildoner <=- (The Sysop's last name)
-
- Example configuration file for USERINFO.DAT
- -------------------------------------------
- C:\BBS\USERINFO.DAT <=- (Full pathname of your USERINFO.DAT file)
- T&J Software <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
- Tom <=- (The Sysop's first name)
- Wildoner <=- (The Sysop's last name)
- NOTE: DOOR.SYS must be in the SAME directory as USERINFO.DAT
-
- Example configuration file for CALLINFO.BBS
- -------------------------------------------
- C:\BBS\CALLINFO.BBS <=- (Full pathname of your CALLINFO.BBS file)
- T&J Software <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
- Tom <=- (The Sysop's first name)
- Wildoner <=- (The Sysop's last name)
-
- Example configuration file for DORINFOx.DEF
- -------------------------------------------
- C:\BBS\DORINFOx.DEF <=- (Full pathname of your DORINFOx.DEF file
- where 'x' is the BBS Node number.
- T&J Software <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
- Tom <=- (The Sysop's first name)
- Wildoner <=- (The Sysop's last name)
-
- Example configuration file for SFDOORS.DAT
- ------------------------------------------
- C:\BBS\SFDOORS.DAT <=- (Full pathname of your SFDOORS.DAT file)
- T&J Software <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
- Tom <=- (The Sysop's first name)
- Wildoner <=- (The Sysop's last name)
-
- Example configuration file for CHAIN.TXT
- ----------------------------------------
- C:\BBS\CHAIN.TXT <=- (Full pathname of your CHAIN.TXT file)
- T&J Software <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
- Tom <=- (The Sysop's first name)
- Wildoner <=- (The Sysop's last name)
-
- Example configuration file for GTUSER.BBS
- -----------------------------------------
- C:\BBS\GTUSER.BBS <=- (Full pathname of your GTUSER.BBS file)
- T&J Software <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
- Tom <=- (The Sysop's first name)
- Wildoner <=- (The Sysop's last name)
- 1 <=- (COM port number - defaults to 1)
- 1 <=- (Node number - defaults to 1)
-
- ** Please see your individual door documentation on setting up doors!
-
-
- Example Batch File
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- A sample batch file similar to the following:
- ECHO OFF
- CD\DOORS\RIPVOTE <=- Switch to the door's Directory.
- RIPVOTE RIPVOTE.CFG <=- Execute the door program and pass the
- configuration filename to the program.
- CD\PCB <=- Go back to PCB DIR when user exits door.
- BOARD <=- Restart BBS.
-
- This Door is multi-node compatible so you may run more than 1 node from
- the same .CFG file provided the path to your system file (DORINFOx.DEF,
- CALLINFO.BBS, etc) is exactly the same unless you are using environment
- variables, (q.v.)
-
-
- Environment Variables
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- PCBoard automatically creates the %PCBDRIVE% & %PCBDIR% environment
- variables. Non-PCBoard systems may also use these variables by including
- the following in either your BBS batch or AUTOEXEC.BAT
- SET PCBDRIVE=C: <- Drive letter of your BBS files
- SET PCBDIR=\BBSDIR <- Path to your BBS files
- Then in your Door .CFG file instead of putting C:\BBSDIR\DOOR.SYS, you
- would put %PCBDRIVE%%PCBDIR%\DOOR.SYS. This allows you to use just one
- .CFG file for multi-node operation!
-
- To specify a non-standard IRQ, put the IRQ number after the .CFG on the
- command line. For example:
-
- RIPVOTE RIPVOTE.CFG /5
- or using the PCBDRIVE procedure: SET IRQ=5 and use
- RIPVOTE RIPVOTE.CFG /%IRQ%
-
- This tells the program to use IRQ 5 instead of the standard IRQ.
-
- Had reports of conflicts when using non-standard IRQ's on Novell/Netware
- systems. Seems Novell also uses the / character so something went screwy
- somewhere. So I added the * (asterisk) which may be used instead of the /
- in case of a conflict. In other words, /%IRQ% and *%IRQ% will both work
- and are interchangeable.
-
- When specifying the location of the system file on line 1 of the doors .CFG
- file, you may use the environment variables %pcbdrive%, %pcbdir%, %pcbnode%,
- and %wcnodeid%. Some examples:
- PCBoard:
- USERS.SYS in C:\PCB - %pcbdrive%%pcbdir%\USERS.SYS
- USERS.SYS in C:\PCB\NODE1 - %pcbdrive%%pcbdir%\NODE%pcbnode%\USERS.SYS
-
- Wildcat!:
- USERINFO.DAT in C:\WC\NODE1 - C:\WC\NODE%wcnodeid%
-
- Non-PCBoard systems may use the PCB environment variables by setting them
- in either AUTOEXEC.BAT or in the batch that runs the door. For example:
- SET PCBDRIVE=C:
- SET PCBDIR=\BBSDIR
- SET PCBNODE=1
-
-
- Fossil Driver Support
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- DoorFrame supports the use of Fossil drivers. To tell your Door to use the
- Fossil driver instead of the standard COM ports, just put /FD on the command
- line when running the door. For example:
- MYDOOR MYDOOR.CFG /FD
- indicates that a Fossil driver is present and should be used. If no Fossil
- driver is detected, DoorFrame will print a message to that effect and exit
- the door gracefully.
-
-
- Sysop Keys
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- F3 - Toggles the printer On/Off. Value is passed to PCBoard and/or
- written to DOOR.SYS and USERS.SYS
- F4 - Toggles the Page Bell on/off. Value is passed to PCBoard
- and/or written to DOOR.SYS and USERS.SYS
- F5 - DOS Shell. Allows SysOp to exit to DOS from inside a DOOR.
- F7 - Toggles the Caller Alarm On/Off. Value is passed to PCBoard
- and/or written to DOOR.SYS and USERS.SYS
- F8 - Returns the caller involuntarily to the BBS.
- F9 - Toggles the local display On/Off. Value is passed to PCBoard
- and/or written to DOOR.SYS and USERS.SYS
- F10 - Activates SysOp CHAT mode within the DOOR.
- ESC - Deactivates CHAT mode. DOOR is resumed.
- UP - Give the caller extra time while in the DOOR.
- DN - Subtract time from the caller while in the DOOR.
- HOME - HELP key for Status Line options.
- ALT-N - SysOp next on toggle. Value passed to PCBoard. (PCBoard only)
- ALT-X - PCBoard will exit after current caller logs off. Value is
- passed to PCBoard. Not available on non-PCBoard systems.
-
-
- SYSOP.CFG FILE
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- 10 NUMBER OF RIP SCREENS YOU HAVE TO DISPLAY
- A RIP Car! DESCRIPTION OF SCREEN 1
- Being a SysOp! 2
- A picture of an eagle. 3
- A monsterous picture! 4
- Thanks to PEPSI! 5
- Picture of a goblin! 6
- Mosaic scene.... 7
- A Computer Board. 8
- City Lights! 9
- Star Trek! 10
- whitcar2.rip DOS FILENAME FOR SCREEN 1
- face1.rip 2
- eagle.rip 3
- monster.rip 4
- thanks.rip 5
- goblin.rip 6
- mosaic.rip 7
- cboard.rip 8
- city.rip 9
- stdemo.rip 10
-
- The SYSOP.CFG file MUST have all 21 lines even if you only have
- 5 screens for the users to vote on!
-
-
- LDISPLAY.DAT File Structure
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This file only has one number, either a -1 or a 0. -1 means the local
- display will be left on, and a 0 means the local display will be
- toggled OFF when a remote user enter the door.
-
-
- MAINTENANCE
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- After the initial setup, no maintenance on your part is needed!
- The door will reset every monday!
-
-
- PLAYING LOCALLY
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Not possible because of the RIP Graphics!
-
-
- COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Please see the file TJHELP.TXT for some helpful tips and tricks
- for some problems which we have come across. This file changes
- all the time, and the latest version of TJHELP.ZIP can always be
- found on our BBS.
-
-
- VERSION HISTORY
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- See the HISTORY.TXT file for information on the history of the game
- and the new options in the new versions!
-
-
- REGISTERING
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- That's all there is to it! If you have any problems or questions
- please feel free to call the T&J BBS at (717)325-9481 and join the
- T&J Software Conference.
-
-
- See the enclosed registration form for ordering! (REGISTER.TXT)
-