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- PEXpress 2.00
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- A ProBoard "PEX" program for auto-starting Silver Xpress.
- by Jim Louvau (04/08/94)
- (modified for Proboard 2.10 by Santronics, 08/01/95)
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- What it does:
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- The Silver Xpress Off-Line Mail System offers users an option to
- "auto-start".
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- The designer of Xpress put it there for the intention of 3rd party
- programs to READ this user flag and auto-start Silver Xpress. Not
- many BBS programs have the ability to use this feature in Xpress.
-
- However, Proboard does with its PEX progamming system. This PEX will be
- called when the user logs in. It checks the Xpress User flag for the
- auto-start option, and if enabled, Xpress is automatically started! If
- disabled, the PEX exits and PROBOARD continues with normal login
- operations.
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- This is an excellent POWER FEATURE no other Off-line Mail System has and
- it will give your BBS a wonderful option that isn't forced upon users!
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- How it does it:
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- PEXpress is meant to be renamed and run as one of your "WELCOMEx.PEX"
- files. When called, it will search the Silver Xpress user records for the
- current user's name. If found, it will check to see if they have turned
- on the auto-start feature, and if so, will do a menu shell (menu type 7
- call) to run the Silver Xpress door.
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- Setup:
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- 1) Rename "PEXPRESS.PEX" to an unused "WELCOMEx.PEX" file, and place it
- in your ProBoard PEX directory. It should be the first one for better
- operations, such as WELCOME1.PEX
-
- 2) Copy PEXPRESS.INI to the \PB directory and modify the file to match
- your system parameters. There are two parameters in the "INI" file:
-
- USERFILE = <pathname> : This tells PEXpress where to find the Silver
- Xpress user file. This *MUST* be a full path and filename. The Silver
- Xpress user file is normally called "XPUSER.DAT," and is located in
- the Silver Xpress system directory. For example, if you installed
- Xpress in "C:\XPRESS," then the "USERFILE" setting in "PEXPRESS.INI"
- would be:
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- USERFILE = C:\XPRESS\XPUSER.DAT
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- COMMAND = <command> : This is a ProBoard type 7 menu command ("DATA")
- line. Since PEXpress will run the Silver Xpress door, exactly as if it
- had been called by a type 7 menu function, the parameters that
- ProBoard will pass to it need to be specified here.
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- COMMAND = *Z XPRESS.BAT -P*P -B*B *X
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- This will run the XPRESS.BAT. You should be able to use the same
- batch file provided for normal Xpress operations using the Proboard
- Xpress menu provided (SXMENU.PBM) by the Silver Xpress installation.
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