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- Q-Maker (Questionnaire Maker) By: Dave Green
- (c) 1990 GreenSoft (All Rights Reserved)
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- SHAREWARE NOTICE:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This program is NOT FREE of charge! It can be shared with others or placed
- in your download area on your BBS PROVIDED that you do NOT modify the
- program or it's code in any way. 30 days should be ample time to decide
- if it's useful to you or not. It is not disabled in any way what-so-ever
- nor does it flash nasty warnings. I TRUST you!
-
- Technically, you don't register this program. You purchase it for $10.00
- by sending the payment via U.S. Mail at the address listed below:
-
- Dave Green
- 124 Goya Drive
- Stockton, CA 95207
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- OTHER INFO:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- This program was written to aid the RA/QBBS sysop in writing questionnaires.
- It is NOT for the weak at heart or the NON-EXPERIENCED sysop.
- You must have at least SOME knowledge of how questionnaires work for this
- utility to be useful to you. Your RA/QBBS doc's covers this area and if you
- have not done so, you should study that section.
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-
- DISCLAIMER:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- I take absolutely NO responsibility for any damage to software or hardware
- which may result in the use of this program. You use it entirely at your
- OWN RISK! It may eat all the data on your hard drive! I have tested the
- program and it is in use HERE and I have had NO PROBLEM. My point being
- that whether you use it is up to you.
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- GUARANTEE:
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- NONE except to take up a (small) portion of disk space.
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-
- WHY I WROTE THIS PROGRAM:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Q-Maker was written to save a few extra keystrokes. NOTHING MORE.
- Anyone that has the knowledge of how to write questionnaires
- COULD do so with any ASCII text editor but this program saves
- typing out those L-O-N-G words.
- There are OTHER programs around that write questionnaires but
- to date I have not found one that allows you to enter certain
- parameters which I have included here which means that you STILL
- end up having to use a TEXT editor to modify the script.
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- USING Q-Maker:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Running Q-Maker is EASY! Using Q-Maker is the REAL trick.
- The program is Menu driven for the KEYWORDS but you must enter the
- parameters. Q-Maker inserts all the QUOTES, PIPE SYMBOLS etc. when
- necessary for a certain function.
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- The MENU options are:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- <A>sk --------------- Inserts ASK and prompts for PARM#1,PARM#2
- <C>hangeColor ------- Inserts CHANGECOLOR and prompts for PARM#1,PARM#2
- <D>isplay ----------- Inserts DISPLAY and prompts for text (Leading and
- trailing ["] is automatically inserted)
- <E>ndIF ------------- Inserts ENDIF
- <I>f ---------------- Inserts IF and prompts for text (" and = are
- automatically inserted)
- <G>etChoice --------- Gets users choice and prompts for a variable
- number to store it to
- <L>istAnswer -------- Inserts LISTANSWER and prompts for ANSWER#
- Can be used to show the user what thier responses
- were....before saving them.
- <O>utputAnswer ------ Inserts OUTPUTANSWER and prompts for QUESTION #...
- (Variable Number) and posts it into the answer file.
- <P>ostInfo ---------- Posts users name and other information. Should be
- the first command given when saving to an answer file.
- <Q>uit -------------- Inserts QUIT into the questionaire. Can be used as
- a choice dependant upon an IF----ENDIF statement.
- <S>etFlag ----------- Inserts SETFLAG and prompts for FLAGLETTER then FLAG-
- NUMBER and finally whether you want it ON/OFF.
- <*> DisplayFile ----- Inserts DISPLAYFILE and prompt for the name of the file
- you wish to display. I use this option at the beginning
- of my New_User.q-a to display my BBS RULES....This
- way I know they read them.
- <#> SetSecurity ----- Inserts SETSECURITY and prompts for LEVEL #. This can
- be used to automatically raise or lower the security
- level of a user depending on answers given.
- <@> ClearScreen ----- Inserts CLEARSCREEN
- <!> Refresh Screen -- By far, the MOST IMPORTANT command at your disposal!
- The means by which to CLEAR your screen of all those
- SPENT ELECTRONS which clutter the inside of your
- screen display....USE IT OFTEN! <Cheshire Cat Grin>
- <DONE> -------------- QUITS the program and SAVES your questionnaire.
- (QUIT is automatically inserted as the last line
- of the questionnaire)
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- I would like to thank the following individuals for their help in this project.
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- Paul Lewman -- Testing & Doc's (Dark Shadows / Lodi,CA / 1:208/304)
- Gary Reigel -- Testing (The Flop House / Stockton,CA / 1:208/207)
- Phil Horner -- Testing (Tri-STAR Enterprises / Stockton,CA / 1:208/205)
- Steve Scarboro -- Testing (The Junkyard / Stockton,CA / 1:208/202)
-
- This program as well as any future programs should be available at any of
- the above systems.
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