[ EDITOR ]

    To reply to or enter new messages, provide the name of a text
    oriented  editor.   Previous  versions  of  Xpress included a
    built-in editor which is now available as a separate  program
    called XPEDT.EXE.  You may choose to use this editor or  fill
    in  this  field  with  the  name  of  your  favorite  editor.
    Important!  This editor must be either:

     1) in a directory declared on your path, or
     2) named with its FULL path name.

    The XPEDT.EXE  editor is  powerful but  lacks word  wrap.  An
    excellent alternate editor is "Qedit" by Samuel Mitchell.

    You can save some memory by directly calling the EDITOR by
    prefixing the command with ! character. ie., !c:\utils\q.exe.

[ QUOTE ]

    When you are  reading messages you  can reply to  the message
    and include parts of it in your reply.  It's desirable to set
    off the quoted part of the message with the author's initials
    or just arrows.

    Be considerate: never quote large original messages.

    Your choices include:

       "Never" use quoting
       "Always" use quoting
       "Prompt" for quoting

[ QUOTESTR ]

    When quoting  is enabled  with either  Always or  Prompt, the
    reader takes the current message you are reading and  inserts
    the quote character at the beginning of each line.   QUOTESTR
    determines  the  quoting  character(s).   The  default is the
    author's initials.

    For example, John Smith ==> " JS>"

    The most common quote is " >".

[ QWIDTH ]

    When you quote messages, you  may want a different width  for
    reformatting the original message.

    Recommended QWIDTH is 72 characters.  If you have VERY LOW
    quote widths, the quoter will behave erratically.

[ SIGNATURE ]

    Signatures are those fancy sayings or quotes you find at  the
    bottom of  messages.  This  option allows  you to  enter your
    favorite saying  of the  day for  your messages.   This works
    only for registered users of the Silver Xpress Reader.

    NOTE: Your BBS sysop can disable this option.  If you have  a
    signature which  appears to  have been  ignored, probably the
    BBS  sysop  decided  not  to  allow  messages with signatures
    originating from his bulletin board.

    A new feature in 2.24 are "list files". You can have xpress
    pop-up a menu of signatures when you save a messages. To do
    this provide the name of the list file prefixed with a @
    character. ie.,  @signature.lis

[ MESSAGE WIDTH ]

    MESSAGE WIDTH defines  the width of  the messages during  the
    read session.  Some systems create messages with lines  which
    are infinitely long; this option prevents this.


[ MESSAGE LINE LIMIT ]

    MESSAGE LINE LIMIT defines  the length of the message during
    the read session.  Default is 150 lines which equals 12000
    bytes (101*150). If you increase this number, make sure you
    have enough memory.

    The maximum limit is 648 lines. Thats equals 64K worth of
    data.

    Recommended message line limit is 150 lines.

[ WRAP WIDTH ]

    This is not available in Silver Xpress.

[ SEEN BY ]

    The SEEN BY  option allows you  to eliminate all  the network
    traffic numbers found at the bottom of messages.  The SEEN BY
    information is useless  for typical users;  sysops use it  to
    trace messages.

[ EXPANSION ]

    Provide the  name of the decompression (expansion) archival
    program you have chosen to use such as PKXARC.EXE, PKUNZIP.EXE,
    ARCE.COM, or  LHARC.EXE. Note: you must already have  one of
    these programs; they  are not provided with Xpress.

    You must have %1 included in the command. Examples:

      pkxarc.exe   /r %1
      pkunzip.exe  -o %1
      arce.com     %1 /r
      lharc.exe    e /m %1

    If you leave this LINE blank, Xpress will use the archive
    expansion command defined in the file 'ARCHIVE.CFG'. Xpress
    will automatically figure out the archive format and grab the
    proper command. See the file ARCHIVE.CFG. It must reside in
    the same directory as XPREAD.EXE.

[ COMPRESSION ]

    Provide the  name of the compression archival program you  have
    chosen to use  such as PKARC.EXE, PKZIP.EXE, LHARC.EXE, or
    ARCA.COM.  Note: you must already have  one of  these programs;
    they are  not provided with Xpress.

    You must have %1 included in the command. Examples:

      pkarc.exe  /m %1
      pkzip.exe  -mea4 %1     (version 0.92)
      pkzip.exe  -mex %1      (version 1.01 or above)
      lharc.exe  m /m %1
      arca.com   %1 /m

    If you leave this LINE blank, Xpress will use the archive
    compression command defined in the file 'ARCHIVE.CFG'. Xpress
    will automatically figure out the archive format and grab the
    proper command. See the file ARCHIVE.CFG. It must reside in
    the same directory as XPREAD.EXE.

[ WORK PATH ]

    WORK PATH specifies where Silver Xpress does temporary  work.
    Silver ALWAYS creates the directory $WORK$.DIR here.  If this
    WORK PATH is  not defined, Silver  creates the $WORK$.DIR  in
    the current directory.

    Examples:

      Ram Disk     (Make sure you have enough memory.)

        D:\

      Floppy Disk Drive

        B:\
        B:\TEMP  (The B:\TEMP directory must EXIST!)

    You can also define the WORK PATH by using the -W switch.
    ie., Xpread -WB:\TEMP

[ PRINTER ]

    With  Silver  Xpress,  you  can  send messages to any PRINTER
    connected to a serial or parallel port.

         PRN, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, etc.
         COM1, COM2, COM4, etc.

[ FORMFEED ]

    FORMFEED affects message printing.  Depending on your printer
    type, such as a one sheet at a time laser printer, it may  be
    better to send a formfeed or page eject AFTER the message  is
    printed.  There are three options:

       NEVER  -  never send a form feed.
       AFTER  -  send form feed after the text is printed.
       BEFORE -  send form feed before the text is printed.

[ MAIL BOX ]

    The MAIL BOX directory is the location of your incoming  mail
    file(s) (.OPX), and if you don't define a REPLY BOX, the MAIL
    BOX  is  also  where  the  outgoing  REPLY  file(s) (.REP) is
    stored.

    Some communication  programs like  TELIX allow  you to define
    where all your downloaded  files should go.  By  defining the
    MAIL BOX location, you can  run XPREAD from anywhere on  your
    system.  If you leave it  empty, XPREAD expects to find  some
    Xpress mail  files in  the current  directory.

    You may also define this location by using the -M switch
    on the command line.  Ie. -M<mailbox_location>

[ REPLY BOX ]

    The REPLY BOX directory is the location of your REPLY  (.REP)
    files.   By  defining  the  REPLY  BOX location, you can have
    XPREAD  create  the  REPLY  file  in  this location making it
    easier to either upload the file or just for filing purposes.

    You may also define this path  by using the -R switch on  the
    command line.  Ie. -R<replybox_location>

[ SORTING ]

    With Silver  Xpress, you  can have  your mail  SORTED by area
    first, subject next, and date last.  The output is a list  of
    messages which keeps threads or topics in order.

[ REPLY TAG ]

    The Xpress  reader will  mark the  message that  you   either
    read or  replied to.  In order for Xpress to do this, it must
    save this tagging information somewhere.  It does so right in
    the mail file.  On slow or floppy systems, this maybe a  slow
    task.  So this  option will allow  you to  disable  the REPLY
    TAG recording on disk.

    Xpress will always do this at the message level.  With  REPLY
    TAG off, it will not save the information permanently.


[ VIDEO CONFIGURATION ]

    This section will  allow you to  configure the colors,  sound
    the special zooming windows  effect.  The color section  will
    allow you to interactive design your favorite colors.

[ SAVE CONFIGURATION ]

    This option permanently saves your configuration choices.

[ FKEY1 ]

     Reader Session Available Keys

     lt arrow, -  : Previous message
     rt arrow, +  : Next Message
     <cr>, up/dn arrow, pgup pgdn - Scroll the message.
     <cr> will also take you to the next message.

     R     : Reply to this current message. If a reply exist,
             Xpread will prompt you if you wish to delete the
             current reply first. If you say no, this puts you
             into edit mode.

     S     : Save or file the current message. Xpread will prompt
             you for a file name. After the first time, it will
             allow you to append to this file.

     P     : Print the current message. Formfeeds are applied
             according to your configuration setup.

     E     : Enter a new message into the current message area.

[ FKEY2 ]

  Special  Function Key Reader Info Display

  Use this special help facility to define your own help or
  reminder system within Silver Xpress.

  Function Keys F2 to F10 are available. Just follow the
  following guidelines:

   o Define a help pointer with the brackets just as it was done
     for FKEY2.  ie., [ FKEY9 ].  The help pointers must begin
     on column one.

   o Keep all help screens within 20 lines. No scrolling is provided.

[ FKEY3 ]
  Silver Xpress 2.24 will now allow you to configure your setting
  on the BBS. To do this you have to send a message to the Xpress
  program on the BBS.  Here are the steps:

    1: Enter a Message in ANY area. It doesn't matter because
       during upload, Xpress will purge the message will it is
       done with it.

    2: For the TO: field, enter  XPRESS CONFIG
    3: For the SUBJECT: field, enter  XPRESS CONFIG
    4: In the message content, the following commands are allowed:

        AREA  <+/-><area #s>
        ADDK  <keyword>
        DELK  <keyword>
        MACRO type ahead buffer starting from main menu.

  See Documentation for more detail (Press F4 for examples)

[ FKEY4 ]
  The Xpress Configuration commands:

   AREA  <+/-><area #s>
       ie. AREA 10 -12 +14   <-- toggle 10, turn off 12, turn on 14.

   ADDK  <keyword> or DELK  <keyword>
       ie. ADDK XPRESS       <-- add XPRESS to your keyword list
           DELK PROCOMM      <-- Delete XPRESS to your keyword list

   MACRO <keystrokes starting from main menu>

  The  macro command  has alot of power.  With it you can  automate
  or control you entire xpress session after an upload.  In fact, the
  AREA, ADDK, and DELK commands are subsets of the MACRO command.

   ie. MACRO CS 10 -12 +14||   <-- Same as AREA example above.
       MACRO CTZ|DGO||G|       <-- after upload, select Zmodem,
                                   start download and quit.

[ FKEY10 ]

  F1  - Generail Reader Section help
  F2  - Help On Creating Help
  F3  - How to Send to Xpress Configuration Manager at the BBS.
  F4  - More Help for F3.
  F5  - unused.
  F6  - unused.
  F7  - unused.
  F8  - unused.
  F9  - unused.
  F10 - This Screen.

