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Bre User Survey Door
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Let you Player's in your BRE league vote as to how that want the next
reset set up. Includes SysOp functions so that you can send the
average votes to the League Coordinator as well as reset & view the
names of who voted.
Licensing and Distribution
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This program is Shareware. To register send 10$ :
B Turner
SMYC Software
12235 China Lake DR
Dallas Texas 75253
Registration will let you have up to 10 leagues listed at once (3 in the
Shareware Version) as well as letting your users know that you support
the Shareware Concept.
If this Program kill's your Hd or hurt's your bbs I am sorry, But that is
about it. I will hold NO responsibility for anything that Happens to your
System, or personal Life.. :)
Installation
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First I am hoping that you have the knowlege to unzip files as well as
edit files with your favorite editor.
Once you have unzipped the BUSD????.ZIP into the directory that you want
to keep it in. Then run Unpack.bat. This will open all the Screens that
your users will see. Next you will have to edit your BUSD.CFG file.
The following drop files are supported by Bre User Survey Door.
PCBOARD.SYS DORINFOx.DEF
USERS.SYS SFDOORS.DAT
DOOR.SYS USERINFO.DAT
CALLINFO.BBS
Edit the file BUSD.CFG to fit your needs.
For Example:
C:\BBS\DOOR.SYS <-----Path to drop file
RabbitLand II <-----BBS Name
Bryan <-----Sysop First Name
Turner <-----Sysop Last Name
c:\fd\mail <-----Path to your outbound mail
ABCD <-----Registration Code
Add the command line below to your batch file to start the door.
BUSD BUSD.CFG
For Example:
@ECHO OFF
C:
CD\BUSD
BUSD BUSD.CFG <-----Command Line that starts the door.
CD\RA
To run the door in LOCAL mode type BUSD BUSD.CFG /L. Or run the run.bat
that I included with this archive.
For Multi node you simply have more than one Config File for each node.
An example of this would be BUSD1.CFG BUSD2.CFG. When you call it you
pass the node number to the Batch file.
For Remote Access you would have a type 7 exit and on the Options line
you would have the following:
*C /ra/busd/busd.bat *n *m
and for your Batch file you would have the following:
cd\ra\busd
busd busd%1.cfg <---- %1 will be changed to the Node Number
cd\ra
Next you will need to make a League.CFG file. To make this easier I have
enclosed a LEAGUE.SAM that you can rename to the CFG.:
copy league.sam league.cfg
Then you can edit it to fit your needs. There has to be 20 lines in this
file. The first line is your League Number and the second is the
description that you want to show your users. If you are not running
enough leagues just leave the league number as 0. As long as the league
number is not 3 digits your users will not be able to vote on it.
Constants
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I really hate this part, but I have to let every one know. I did a pretty
good job on the averaging of voting, but it is not 100 percent accurate.
an example is the following. 4 votes 6, 4, 9, 25. This avgerages out to
a solid 11. Well with them voting one at a time and BUSD attempting to
recreate the votes, it comes up with 10.997. This is still 11 (If you round
up) but there is a possibility that you will loose one digit as in it
will round down instead of up. I do not see a problem in this since the
only time that I was able to do this is in the voting that was up to
10,000.
Fossil Driver Support
---------------------
This door supports the use of Fossil drivers. To tell it to use the
Fossil driver instead of the standard COM ports, just put /FD on the
command line when running the door. For example:
SURVEY SURVEY.CFG /FD
indicates that a Fossil driver is present and should be used. If no Fossil
driver is detected, the door will print a message to that effect and exit
the door gracefully.
Environment Variables
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This door supports COM 1-4 on the standard IRQ's -
COM1/COM3 = IRQ4 and COM2/COM4 = IRQ3. If you wish to use a non-standard IRQ,
add the IRQ number after the configuration filename. Let's assume you want
to use COM1 and IRQ5. The command line passed to BUSD would be:
BUSD BUSD.CFG /5 or
BUSD BUSD.CFG /%IRQ% for the environment variable.
The /5 tells the door to use IRQ5 rather than the standard IRQ4
that is normally used with COM1. No /x parameter is needed for the standard
IRQ's.
When specifying the location of the system file on line 1 of the BUSD.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
486DX CPU's
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Some math coprocessors in 486DX CPUs cannot handle floating point math.
This can show up as an ERROR 5, a keyboard timeout, etc.
Fortunately there is an easy fix for this problem. Simply place the following
line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
SET NO87=ON
Running The Program
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Users should have no problem in the program, But you as a SysOp have
some other options. As sysop you will see the SysOp many from the BUSD
Main menu. The sysop menu has 3 functions. The first is to reset the
League. This will kill all the data that your users have inserted into
the data directory for a certain league. The Next is to see who has
voted. It will just simply display the users names that have voted on
the different leagues. The final is the most important.
When you select Send votes to the LC, it will create a message to your
LC. You will first be asked for your LC's Address. This is the address
that is in the #1 slot in your brnodes.dat. Next you will be asked for
the address that your LC uses to contact you. For example in the Linear
Network League 021 (Ran by Glen O'Gorman) his address is 121:2110/301
and in the Linear Network Mine is 121:2110/101 So those are the numbers
that I would use to contact him.
Support BBS:
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RabbitLand II 1-972-286-3443/3992 Fido 1:124/7013 Linear 121:2110/101
Bryan Turner
Special Thanks:
---------------
Well I have to Start by thanking Mehul Patel for making Such a great game
and to all the Player's that make if fun to play.
But I have to thank David Moses for getting me Started in this, and for being
up at 12:30am to tell me that I can't spell. Thanks David! (I think)
And to my Beta Testers for this Version:
Glen O'Gorman The Apollo BBS, Grand Prairie Texas 1-972-237-0321
Daniel Fleming The Stronghold, Mesquite Texas 1-972-203-1782
Bob Oakes The T.C.C. BBS, Tacoma Washington 1-206-474-0931
Where to find this Utility?
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Freq BUSD from 1:124/7013
Other Products from SMYC Software (All can be freqed from 1:124/7013):
Baby Derby
----------
Let your users join in the fun of your upcoming Baby. Lets your users
Guess on the date, weight, time of day, and Sex of your baby. You can
use this for your users babies as well. Freeware!
FREQ - BABY
Echo Request Door
-----------------
Let your users tell you what echos they want by actually going through
your *.na files. has option to let them write you netmail or actually
turn on the echo it's self via areafix to your hub. Shareware 10$
FREQ - EREQ
Request
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Let your users request the files they read about in the Echos. This
utility will write the Netmail to the Long Distance node telling him/her
where the user saw about the file, and put it on hold for you to decide
if you want to release it or not. Freeware
FREQ - REQUEST
Bre User Survey Door
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Let you Player's in your BRE league vote as to how that want the next
reset set up. Includes SysOp functions so that you can send the
average votes to the League Coordinator as well as reset & view the
names of who voted.
Shareware 10$
FREQ - BUSD
Address Showr'
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Let your users see there E-mail address on your bbs.
Freeware!
FREQ - ADDRESS
SRVIEW
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SRView the first utility that will let your users see all the bulletins
that all the Solar Realms IBBS games create with out having to go into the
games to see them. Thus not locking down nodes on all of the SRGAMES.
Shareware 5$
FREQ - SRVIEW
POLL
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This is another one of my Save Time Utils, although I should have read
the doc's that came with InterMail as it does the same thing that this
does, although this is easyer to understand. Poll will write a message
to as meny node numbers that you would like at one time, Thus making your
system Poll them to get your mail.
FREEWARE!
FREQ - POLL
HUBMAKE
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This is a real simple Util that will create a text file with everyones address
in it to send a message out to the entire Network of your choice.
FREEWARE!
FREQ - HUBMAKE