PURITY 1000
Comprehensive Purity Evaluation Test
Stand-Alone Version
By: Dennis Maidon
The Parole Board BBS
311 Buffalo RD
Clayton, NC 27520
Node 1 - (919) 965-4696 USR Dual-Standard
PSA (Purity Stand-Alone) is modeled after a BBS Door program that I have
written called "PURITY 1000". I have had numerous requests from SysOps as well
as users for a program which can be used at home. This is the result.
There are several ways to utilize PSA. You can type 'PSA' on the command
line and answer the questions as they come up. PSA does not keep a record of
your answers when utilized this way.
Now comes the exciting part. Type: PSA <firstname> from the command
line and PSA will create a text file containing all of your answers. The name
must not be longer than 8 characters. It MUST be a valid DOS filename.
The completed file will be approximately 3k in size. Each line contains the
question number followed by the answer, either a "Y" or a "N". When you finish
you can get your mate or partner to answer those same questions. Save both of
these files because you will want to compare and analyze your answers.
EXAMPLE: PSA DENNIS
This will allow you to run PSA and create a file named 'DENNIS.PRO'
which contains your answers. PSA will append the ".PRO" to your first
name. If you stop PSA you will need to delete any incomplete .PRO files
as PSA will only append to the file starting with question one. That
means answer all 1000 at a sitting if you want a complete .PRO file.
Once you have the two "<filename>.PRO" file that you want to analyze you
can then use ANALYZE.EXE to run a comparison of the two files and see just how
well you match up with your partner. The command line will accept the two
filenames and do the match.
Example : ANALYZE BRENDA.PRO DENNIS.PRO
This will run ANALYZE and compare the the files 'BRENDA.PRO' and
'DENNIS.PRO'. All files must be in the same directory as ANALYZE.EXE.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ │
│ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Purity 1000 Analyzer v.02ß │ │
│ └───────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
│ │
│ Overall Results Results by Section │
│ ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Answers Analyzed : │
│ ─────────────────────── │
│ Matches : │
│ ─────────────────────── │
│ Compatibility : │
│ ─────────────────────── │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Press F10 to Exit Program
ANALYZE will then start processing the two answer files. On the right
hand side the results of all 13 parts of PURITY 1000 will appear. The Overall
Results are a compilation of all 1000 questions. You will be able to look at
this screen and see just how you match up with your mate. The finished screen
appears below.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Purity 1000 Analyzer v.02ß │ │
│ └───────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
│ │
│ Overall Results Results by Section │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Answers Analyzed : 1000 Part 1 : 52.17 │
├──────────────────────── Part 2 : 84.13 │
│ Matches : 475 Part 3 : 63.16 │
├──────────────────────── Part 4 : 71.43 │
│ Compatibility : 47.50 Part 5 : 40.98 │
├──────────────────────── Part 6 : 68.82 │
│ Part 7 : 29.41 │
│ Part 8 : 70.45 │
│ Part 9 : 56.41 │
│ Part 10: 60.53 │
│ Finished! Part 11: 1.06 │
│ Part 12: 8.79 │
│ Part 13: 45.45 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Press F10 to Exit Program
As you can see above, there were 1000 question of which 475 answers
matched for a 47.5% compatibility. The individual percentages from the 13
parts are listed on the right. When ANALYZE finishes matching and
compiling the results of the two files it will then write a file called
"ANALYZE.DAT" which will include all the above results plus a
description of the thirteen parts.
It is possible that sysops will provide file areas on their BBS which will
contain nothing but Users Answer files. You will be able to create you own
personal answer file the Upload it to your favorite BBS. If there is someone
on there that you would like to analyze their compatibility with you, just
download their answer file and run ANALYZE.EXE on their file and yours. Just
imagine the possibilities.
The '.PRO' files are only 3000 bytes in length and are 2528 bytes when
ZIPed. It might also be possible for one BBS system to act as a warehouse for
the .PRO files and distribute them to BBSs that request one. (?)
Enjoy!
This software is a full-featured program with no expiration date or
hidden time bombs. I ask for no registration fee for the use of this
program but would appreciate any and all contributions. I have spent
countless hours and LD phone calls to bring this program about. Nothing
will be refused.
WARRANTY
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THIS SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS ARE DISTRIBUTED "AS IS"
WITHOUT WARRANTY, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL ANYONE INVOLVED WITH
THE CREATION AND PRODUCTION OF THIS PRODUCT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT,
SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF ANY USE THEREOF
OR BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY.
DISTRIBUTION
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You may make this file available for downloading from your BBS or you may
upload it to any BBS of your choice, provided that you do not make any
changes to the contents of the archive (ZIP file). The archive and its
individual contents may not be used by any service that charges any money
whatsoever, without the written permission of the author.
THANKS
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Special thanks goes out for my wife who is definitely a
"Computer Widow".
Tom Lamere, The Petting Zoo BBS, for his help in getting this
product finished.