                          The Voting Booth

The voting booth is a program to allow multiple voting booths to be used
to survey your users for fun or for informational purposes. You can have
up 9 different voting booths, with each one having up to 1000 questions.

Installation is easy, just create a folder, anywhere, to unzip the program
in. Be sure that you used a 32 bit unzipper, as there are long filenames
in the archieve. I am one of those long filename type guys. Add the
program to your menu, using WcMenu. Add the location of the program to
the parameter section of WcMenu. That is all there is to it. Now go into
the program and you can create the different voting booths. Sub folders
will be created automatically when needed, also various files will be
created.

There is a file called Sysop.cfg. This file contains the word SYSOP and
you can add other levels or names to this file. Names or security levels
that are in this file will have access to the sysop part of the program,
that is used to create the polls. Secondary profiles are also supported.

The format of the different booths is simple. Each booth has a file with
a DAT extension. In the first line of this file, there is the name of
the booth, followed by the first question, then the number of answers.
There can be up to 9 different answers for each question. Then the individual
answers are followed. Then the next question, etc.

A file with a TOT extension is also created, this contains the tabulated
results for the individual booth. A file with the NAMES extension contains
the names of the users that have voted in each booth. They are only
allowed to vote one time per booth.

The RES file contains all the results for each user. For instance, Larry
Anderson.res would contain the results from all the polls that Larry
Anderson had entered. NOTE: This file is just written to, but not used
by the program at this time.

If you wish to restart a poll, just delete the appropiate TOT and NAMES
files and it will be restarted. 

The Vote.cfg file contains all the names of the different polls.

Sysop menu contains the ability to delete polls and start polls and
to see individual results.

Future additions for the program? HTML output and input, branches, and
the ability to use Wildcat questionnaire files.

