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- USENet multi-vote ballot counting scripts.
-
- Kent Paul Dolan, LCDR, USNOAA Corps, Retired.
- 15 December 1990.
-
- Enclosed are the set of scripts I used to run the comp.sys.amiga
- reorganization vote acceptance. They have been cleaned up and modestly
- documented (and tested - they still work) so that they can be shared
- with the net.
-
- These scripts are meant to be used as examples and modified by the vote
- taker to suit the system and file layout and number of votes in the
- ballot concerned. They are simple but effective, and are placed in the
- public domain for any use whatever. Credit to the author is not required
- or requested.
-
- There are two kinds of scripts enclosed: csh scripts and (old) awk
- scripts. The csh scripts depend on several facilities not available in
- sh, and any sh expert is invited to rewrite them in sh to have the same
- functionality and repost them; I'm not that good at sh. Life will be
- simpler if you put the csh scripts in your path (they unpack into ./bin)
- and use chmod to make them executable
-
- The awk scripts are deliberately restricted to old awk functionality so
- that they may be run on a wider variety of systems. They should run
- unmodified under new awk. I don't know bawk well enough to know if they
- would also run unchanged under it.
-
- Enclosed files FILE_PURPOSES and POLLING_PLACE should be read to
- understand the files and directory structures used with these scripts,
- and to understand the methodology of running a vote.
-
- /// It's Amiga
- /// for me: why
- Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for
- <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> \XX/ anything less?
- --
- Convener, ongoing comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.
-