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Logicom Voting Booth v0.91ß
A Complete Voting System For WWIV v4.xx
Installation and Use
Written by
Nicolas LeBlanc
Logicom Voting Booth Copyright (c) 1994 Logicom Softwares
WWIV Copyright (c) 1988 - 1994 Wayne Bell
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Table of Contents
1. License and Warranty................................. 3
1.1 Thanks.......................................... 4
2. Preface.............................................. 5
2.1 Hardware Requirements........................... 5
2.2 Software Requirements........................... 5
3. Installation......................................... 6
3.1 Directories..................................... 6
3.2 Program Files................................... 6
4. Setup and Configuration.............................. 7
4.1 Running As A Door............................... 9
4.2 Running From Inside WWIV........................ 9
5. Running Logicom Voting Booth......................... 8
6. Future & Registration................................ 11
7. Support.............................................. 11
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1. License and Warranty
The Logicom Voting Booth is not a Public Domain program and is not free.
The Logicom Voting Booth is copyright (C) 1993 by Logicom Softwares.
Non-registered users of this program are granted a limited two-week
license to The Logicom Voting Booth to evaluate the programs
suitability for their requirements. Any usage of The Logicom Voting
Booth beyond the evaluation time period requires registration of each
copy of the program used. Use of non-registered copies of The Logicom
Voting Booth beyond the original evaluation period is prohibited.
The Logicom Voting Booth may NOT be modified in any respect, for any
reason, including but not limited to, de-compiling, disassembling, or
reverse engineering of the program.
You are free to distribute the PUBLICLY AVAILABLE shareware version of
The Logicom Voting Booth to others subject to the above restrictions and
also the following:
A. No fee is charged for its use.
B. No renumeration may be accepted for The Logicom Voting Booth.
This does not apply to computer access charges the system
operators (Sysops) of or organizations owning bulletin board
systems, online services, etc... may charge subscribers.
C. The Logicom Voting Booth must be copied in unaltered form,
complete with files containing license information, the FULL
documentation and all accompanying files. The self-extracting
archive distributed by Logicom Softwares must not be altered
in ANY respect.
D. All shareware houses/distribution firms must make explicitly
clear that the diskette purchase containing any shareware
program has NOT registered the shareware with Logicom Softwares.
System Operators may make The Logicom Voting Booth available for
download only if the above conditions are met. The archive (LVB090.ZIP)
distributed by Logicom Softwares or an equivalent archive may be made
available only in complete form. Refer to section FILE LISTING to verify
complete package contents.If the contents appear altered or not complete,
you may obtain the latest release of The Logicom Voting Booth directly
from Logicom Softwares by sending a formatted diskette labeled with the
word "LOGICOM VOTING BOOTH". Please include $5 for handling.
An alternate means of obtains the latest shareware archive is calling
Alternative Worlds at (514) 664-4503. See preface for download
instructions and how to leave comments.
The Logicom Voting Booth v0.91ß License iii
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Commercial distributors of "Public Domain", "Shareware", and/or User
Supported software may distribute The Logicom Voting Booth subject to the above
conditions only after obtaining WRITTEN permission from Logicom
Softwares. This condition statement supersedes all previous agreements.
Please refer to the section entitled registration/ordering section for
additional information on registration, corporate site-licensing and
related topics.
-----
The above license statement does not apply to the REGISTERED version
of The Logicom Voting Booth. The registered software of Logicom Softwares Programming Services
is protected under Canada and USA Copyright and Trademark Laws. It
must be treated just like a book with certain exceptions as follows:
A. Logicom Softwares Programming Services authorizes the making of
archival copies of the registered software for the sole
purpose of backing-up your software and protecting your
investment from possible loss.
B. The medium on which the registered software is recorded is
transferred to the customer, but not the title to the software.
C. The customer may resell or distribute unmodified copies of the
registered software provided the customer has purchased from
Logicom Softwares one copy of the registered software for each
one sold or distributed. The provisions of this software license
shall also be applicable to third parties receiving copies of the
registered software from the customer.
D. By saying, "just like a book", Logicom Softwares Programming means
that the registered software may be used by any number of people and
may be freely moved from one computer location to another so long as
there is ABSOLUTELY NO POSSIBILITY of it being used at one location
while being used at another. Just like a book that cannot be read by
two different people in two different locations at the same time.
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1.1 Thanks
No program is really done alone, so here's the list of people
I have to thank for this program.
- Wayne Bell for the WWIV Software
- Martin Bourdages for his tips and a lot of help.
- Alex Buchana for his beta testing of the ealier versions.
- Micheal Deweese for many ideas and his INI handling routines.
- Etherial Cereal for inspiration with ECVOTE.C
And of course, all people that back us in French Mod Division,
Logicom Softwares and Micro Design for our effort for WWIV in
releasing Quality modifications and software to help WWIV
operators.
2. Preface
Welcome in the world of Logicom Softwares. You might already know
us due to some popular modifications done by us labeled as
French Mod Division. The Logicom Voting Booth is a tool to
enhance a part of WWIV that was, according to us, one of the weak
points of WWIV. So we based our efforts in taking all possible
modification and do a software with it. This is it. I hope you
will like it.
2.1 Hardware Requirements
- An IBM PC, AT, ix86, PS/2 or 100% IBM BIOS compatible PC
- A hard disk with at least 100k of disk space available
- A monochrome or color monitor
2.2 Software requirements
- Microsoft or IBM PC DOS v3.0 or above
- WWIV BBS v4.xx or above (Faster on v4.24)
- An ANSI driver must be loaded. (ANSI.SYS or ZANSI.SYS)
The current version is tested on WWIV v4.24 Beta 2, but this
software should have no problem under any version of WWIV v4.xx.
Ran as a door, it will fit on any version, ran from inside the
BBS (Registered WWIV Operators only) it requires a modification.
Both modification (v4.23 and v4.24) are included. If you run
any other version of WWIV (in the 4.xx familly) and have
problem to install it. Please contact us.
This software does not currently support multi-instance BBS, if
you run a multi-instance WWIV, please contact me for specific way
to execute the voting booth.
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3. Installation
To be run as a door, follow the following instructions, to be
run from inside the BBS, install the required modification to
the WWIV source code and only copy VOTE.EXE in your main WWIV
directory. The file VOTE.STR should be in your gfiles directory.
4. Setup And Configuration
The setup of the Logicom Voting Booth is very easy. If you run it
has a door, run the config door. From inside WWIV, it's like the old
way, type //IVOTES from the main menu.
4.1 Running as a door (set up for WWIV v4.xx)
This is actually the door setup for the logicom voting booth. Do as
you like. Set the security level to the level you want your users
to vote.
A. Description : Logicom Voting Booth
B. Filename : VOTE %1 /O
C. SL : 10
D. AR : None.
E. ANSI : Optional
F. DOS Interrupt: Used
G. 300 Baud : Allowed
H. Shrink : Yes
I. Disable pause: No
J. Local only : No
K. Multi user : No
L. Registered by: AVAILABLE
M. Usage : 1
Which (A..M,Q)?
This is the setup for the configuration menu, put the security
level to the one you want, allowing your users to add ballots or
not. Only the voting co-sysop will access to the main configuration
pannel.
A. Description : Logicom Voting Booth Maintenance
B. Filename : VOTE %1 /S
C. SL : 10
D. AR : None.
E. ANSI : Optional
F. DOS Interrupt: Used
G. 300 Baud : Allowed
H. Shrink : Yes
I. Disable pause: No
J. Local only : No
K. Multi user : No
L. Registered by: AVAILABLE
M. Usage : 1
Which (A..M,Q)?
4.2 Using Logicom Voting Booth from inside WWIV.
For this option, you need to have registered WWIV before. You
need a C compiler (Borland C++ v3.1 recommanded) and you must
have the WWIV Source Code and know how to compile a BBS.EXE.
Then, follow the instructions of the modification files:
■ ALTW-06.423 : For WWIV v4.06 to v4.23
■ ALTW-06.424 : For WWIV v4.24 and later only
If you have any problems, get in contact with us and we'll help
you to install it.
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5. Using Logicom Voting Booth
The use of the Logicom Voting Booth is similar to Renegade (R)
bulletin board voting system. You need to config it
6. Future and Registration
Versions earlier to v1.0 are not crippled and don't have any
new features available on registered versions only, but if you
like this software, we encourage you to register it and help us
to continue our work
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7. Support
The support for this software can be done by several ways.
You can call directly the support BBS.
Alternative Worlds BBS
(514)-664-4503
Authentic WWIV Support Board, Auto SysOp Validation.
Or e-mail me at 1@5497 on all those network (will change for
@20397 on WWIVnet with the node renumbering).
/*************************************************************************/
You may want to Subscribe to the French Mod Division Support Sub to keep up
with the latest version or report and bugs and make suggestions. The sub info
is as follows:
NAME: French Mod Division Support Sub
TYPE: ESE
HOST: 20397 on WWIVnet, 5497 on WWIVlink & IceNET (And other networks)
Please send all suggestions and any reported bugs via WWIVnet to 1@20397, or
you may call my BBS at the above number and leave feedback.
/**************************************************************************/
NOTE: This is a temporairy documentation. It will be complete with v1.0
(This is very long for someone who doesn't speak english as a 1st
language)