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Introduction to Silver Xpress.
Welcome to the Silver Xpress Off-line Mail System. Silver Xpress is
an off-line mail system designed for all major bulletin board
systems.
Reading and replying to bulletin board mail is time consuming, often
taking up your entire allocated time on a BBS. If you read lots of
mail, spend a lot of time on-line replying to and entering new mail,
and/or have large phone bills from calling computer bulletin board
systems (BBS's), then Silver Xpress is for you.
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With Silver Xpress, you can capture mail in an organized manner for
off-line reading and replying. You can do this with any Xpressable
BBS on which you are a user. Ask the BBS sysop if their system is set
up to support Xpress.
Xpress captures mail from your pre-selected message areas or
conferences. It then bundles the mail into a compressed format ready
for downloading to your PC. This compressed file is called an Xpress
mail packet. Once you download the Xpress mail packet to your PC, you
use the interactive Xpress Reader program to read and reply to your
mail.
To get started, find a bulletin board system that offers the Silver
Xpress system as a service to you, a communication program with
download and upload capabilities, and a file compression system such
as PKZip, PAK, ARC, ZOO, or LHARC. File compression systems are also
called archival systems or archivers.
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In summary, the Xpress system lets you do the following:
a) scan for your new mail
b) bundle the mail into Xpress packet format
c) compress the bundle using your favorite archiver
d) transfer the Xpress packet to your PC using a standard file
transfer protocol such as Xmodem, Ymodem, or Zmodem
e) use the special Xpress Reader program after logging off to read
and reply to the new mail
f) log back on the same BBS to upload the reply packet, if you have
created one
g) repeat from the beginning
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Silver Xpress is fun to use but also has value by saving you time and
money. Try it out. Your electronic mailing will never be the same!
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