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DCT Voting Door v0.20, ßeta Release
By Dan Traczynski
June 16, 1996.
Copyright (C) 1996 Dan Traczynski. All rights reserved.
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DCT-Vote is a deluxe voting door for any BBS software which supports the
DORINFO1.DEF or DOOR.SYS drop file. Setup is amazingly fast and easy, and
the voting door will be FreeWare until v1.0, after which I'll decide whether
it should continue as freeware or make it shareware.
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Table of Contents
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Features ................................... o1
Installation ............................... o2
SysOp Hotkeys .............................. o3
Distribution & Disclaimer .................. o4
Credits/Acknowledgments .................... o5
Things to look for in upcoming releases .... o6
History - Notes from the Past .............. o7
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Features of the DCT Voting Door
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■ Supports both DORINFOx.DEF and DOOR.SYS allowing it to be run on virtually
any bulletin board system.
■ User time-out after a configurable amount of time.
■ Auto-Deletion of old booths.
■ Lightbar selector for you eLiTe d00ds.
■ Problem users can be locked out.
■ Language support (not all of us speak English ;).
■ External ANSI file support.
■ Optional user censor (allowing you to filter out swearing).
■ Bar graphs/percentages when displaying results.
■ Users may leave their comments on each booth.
■ Colour configuration.
■ Internal SysOp-User full-screen chat mode.
■ DCT-Vote can be set to have users vote for all new booths when they login.
■ Multi-tasker capability.
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Installation Guide
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Installation is extremely simple; all you must do is create a directory
for DCT-Vote, then run CONFIG.EXE to configure DCT-Vote to your system. You
may also wish to edit DCTVOTE.FLT if you will be using the censor, as no
words have been pre-defined to filter out. DCT-Vote does not have to be run
from the directory it resides in, since it automatically looks for all of its
files in the its home directory. Have your BBS call DCT-Vote via a
command-line similar to "C:\BBS\DOORS\DCTVOTE\DCTVOTE.EXE /PC:\BBS". The
"/P" parameter specifies the path for DCT-Vote to read the drop file from and
is only required if the drop file will not be in the current directory. If
your BBS supports memory swapping, please activate this option.
If you would like to have your users presented with any new voting booths
when they login, have DCT-Vote executed at login with the "/A" parameter for
a command-line similar to "C:\BBS\DOORS\DCTVOTE\DCTVOTE.EXE /PC:\BBS /A".
DCT-Vote will have users vote for all new booths that they have not yet voted
for, then return to the BBS automatically. If no new booths exist, DCT-Vote
will terminate without even letting the user know that it has been run. You
may also specify "/A2" instead of "/A", and that would simply tell the user
how many questions he has not yet voted on, then ask him if he would like to
vote for them. This way people would realise that the booths are there, but
they are not forced into them. You may also specify "/A3" which acts the same
as "/A" but does not let users abort the voting (they can't hit ESC).
Command-Line Parameters
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/A[1|2|3] ·∙· Invoke Auto-Vote (1=Vote for all new booths,
2=Prompt then vote,
3=Force users to vote on new booths).
If no number is specified, it defaults to "1".
/Bxxx ·∙· Specify locked baud rate (i.e. /B38400).
/L ·∙· Local mode (logs in with the SysOp's name).
/Nx ·∙· Specify node number (not really needed unless you want it to
read DORINFO2.DEF for node 2 etc).
/Pxxx ·∙· Specify path to drop file (i.e. /PC:\BBS).
/V ·∙· Turn local video off.
/W ·∙· A DOS only network is present.
International Support
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New in v0.20, support has been added so that all strings can be modified
which allows the door to be translated into a different language altogether.
All of the internal strings can be modified from within CONFIG.EXE, but some
parts of the program allow more customisation by allowing you to design your
own ANSI screens. The following files, if they exist, will replace the
internal displays. Note that these files are not required in order for the
door to function properly.
LOGO.ANS This replaces the default "DCT-Vote" logo that is displayed
in the main menu.
LOCKOUT.ANS This is shown if the user is locked out.
NOANSI.ASC If the user's terminal does not support ANSI, this file is
displayed instead of the hard-coded message.
INUSE.ANS Message telling the user that someone else is using the door
on a separate node and that he cannot enter the door at this
time.
MAINHELP.ANS Replaces the help box that is shown when a user hits "?" in
the main menu.
The following imbedded codes may be used in the language prompts.
%U User's name.
%B Title of the current booth being voted on. On language prompts that
would appear in places such as the main menu, this code is "undefined".
%H Number of booths user hasn't voted for yet.
%A Number of active booths.
%S Board name.
%T A temporary string that varies with each language prompt.
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SysOp Hotkeys
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SysOp hotkeys allow you to do a number of things while the user is in the
door. Hotkeys supported in this release are as follows.
F1 ·∙· Shows the SysOp hotkeys on the status bar.
Alt∙C ·∙· Invokes the internal chat mode.
Alt∙T ·∙· Twits User. Returns user back to the BBS.
PgUp ·∙· Adds 5 minutes to the user's alloted time in the door.
PgDn ·∙· Removes 5 minutes of the user's time in the door.
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Distribution & Disclaimer
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DCT-Vote is copyright (C) 1996 by Dan Traczynski. All Rights Reserved. I
encourage you to distribute it, but DO NOT by any means alter any of the
files within the original archive. The archive should be named DCTVD020.ZIP,
preferably kept in its ZIP format.
The author, Daniel Traczynski, will take no responsibility to anything
that this program may or may not do to your system. Although the program has
been tested thoroughly by the support team, no guarantee can be given that it
will do what it was