an ancient Multi User Survey Tool
This tool is a prototype multi user survey tool using a curses interface meant to conduct surveys and collect the results after which, the results would be aggregated, summarized, and analyzed.
The person in the conductor role would create the surveys in the survey description language (included), compile the survey, and then deploy it to hundreds to thousands of users who are able to mount the same NFS server hierarchy where each user's results were written to individual files indexed by their user-id (assumes flat user-id space).
This project served a purpose in 1992 but was only used in production once. For archeological reasons this has been resurrected and put into GitHub. There is a lot of bad programming in here for which I am to blame but it does provide what I think is a cool survey description language and a curses user interface allowing the user to convey choice, ranking, and other survey actions.
I will probably modernize this for fun the next time I am on sabbatical. The main purpose of putting this on github is for preservation sake.
The initial github push builds and runs on Mac OS X Sierra/High Sierra and with a little effort it has been used on IRIX, Linux, SmartOS, and FreeBSD. I am pretty sure it needs some C++ updates for it to work with clang.
instructions
# build the tools using make (should work on OS X)
% make
# compile the example survey simplesurvey.sdl
% ./scc simplesurvey.sdl
# run the survey
% ./srv obj-survey