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                         * Super Trivia -- Topic Maker * 
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           Welcome to Super Trivia. This is a different approach to the
         world of Trivia games, because you can create,  add, edit  and
         delete your own topics!   This documentation will focus on the
         operation  of the Topic Maker program,  if you need assistance
         with the operation of the  Super Trivia Door,  please refer to
         the SUPERTRV.DOC file.

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         * Licensing & Warranty *
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           The Topic Maker program is a part of Super Trivia, therefore 
         the same terms of licensing & warranty apply.  This program is
         to be used ONLY with Super Trivia. It MAY NOT be used with, or
         distributed with ANY other program of any type.  It may not be
         altered, decompiled, disassembled, in ANY form. I, Jimi Gue do
         warranty or assume responsibilty for any outcome caused by the
         use or misuse of this program.

           I have decided not to restrict the use of the Topic Maker to
         the Sysop,  meaning a Co-Sysop or someone  affiliated with the
         System can use the Topic Maker to help the Sysop, but ONLY for
         use with Super Trivia. I made this decision because as a Sysop
         I know that there are other areas of the System  that may need
         equal or more time.  Since the Sysop may  wish to maintain the
         Topics on a regular basis, it can be time consuming. Therefore
         in an ongoing effort to make a Sysop's life easier,  the Topic
         maker may be used by others.

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         * Creating A Topic *
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           To create a topic,  select [1] from the main menu.  You will
         be prompted to Enter a name for the topic, up to 20 chars long.
         Then enter the amount of questions you wish this topic to have.
         The Maximum # of questions is 120, the minimum of course is 1.
         Then you are ready to  begin entering your Q & A's.  Questions
         can be one of three types, Multiple Choice, True or False, and
         Fill-In-The-Blank. 
 
           Each question can have up to four  lines of text,  each line
         having 30 characters or less.  If you wish a line to be  blank
         just press ENTER at the beginning of the line.
 
           Multiple Choice questions can have 4 answers (A,B,C,D)  each
         answer can  be up to 20  characters long.  For A True Or False
         question, enter 'T' or 'F' for the answer. Fill-In-The-Blank's
         can have a 20 character answer.
 
           If you wish to stop at any time, press Esc, you will then be
         prompted to save your progress or not.

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         * Editing A Topic *
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           There are two ways of editing a Topic,  Adding  Questions or  
         Editing Questions. Use [2] & [8] to move the selector Up. Then
         press Enter select the topic you want to edit.   When adding a 
         question, enter the number of questions you wish to add,  from 
         here on,  it's  the same as when create a topic.  Press Esc to 
         quit at any time.

           Editing questions is a little bit different.  You can change
         questions or answers in any Topic you  select.  If you wish to
         change the question text, press 'A' for Line 1, 'B' for Line 2
         and so on. To change a Multiple choice answer, press 1 for the
         first answer, 2 for the second etc.. To change a True Or False
         or Fill-In-The-Blank Answer, press '5'. To shuffle through the
         question list, press '+' & '-'.

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         * Deleting A Topic *
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           Deleting a topic can be tricky,  not in the ideals,  but the
         results. Since Super Trivia has wide range of Q & A's,  I made
         a feature that prevents a user from getting  the same question
         twice,  once it has been answered correctly.  Thus keeping the
         game competitive.  Well,  the most efficient way of doing this
         is to keep  track of the topics in the order they are found in
         the Topic File  (SUPERTRV.TOP). Lets say you delete Topic # 4,
         then naturally Topic # 5 will take its place,  thus downsizing
         SUPERTRV.TOP. Ok now, if a user has been using Topic # 4,  for
         example, he has answered 10 questions correctly in this Topic,
         then those stats will remain and go into effect for  the "new"
         Topic # 4.  I hope I didn't  confuse anyone,  but I've tried a
         few other approaches to this problem and this  one is the most
         efficient in program  execution, .DAT  filesize etc,. The best
         approach to deleting a topic is to delete at the end/beginning
         of the month, since most users want to keep the topic they are
         playing anyway.

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         * Conclusion *
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           Well that about does for the Topic Maker. I tried to make it
         as easy to use, flexible and friendly as possible. By the way,
         if you wish to share Topics, or even create a bunch of them to
         to give to your fellow Sysops,  that's perfectly fine with me.
         I have considered doing it myself,  but I haven't been able to
         get enough time lately. Like I said if someone wants to create
         several Topic Files,  ZIP 'em & put them up for D/load,  be my
         guest, but ABSOLUTELY NOBODY is to charge a fee of any kind to
         use or distribute them. 

           Thanks for trying Super Trivia, I hope your users enjoy it!!
     