                 Remote Access to Silver Xpress Ver 0.07
         (c) copyright 1995 Peter May, All rights reserved.
                                  
              Legal Stuff (Lets get it out of the way)
                                  
                                  
         Peter May, BBS operators distributing this program
     and anyone else cannot and will not be responsible for any
damage, file destruction, bugs, flu epedemics, common colds, measles
 or basically and other outcome from the use of this Program.  This
 program is an as is proggy.  That is you get it, you back up your
 data files, you test it and if you like it you register it AS IS. 
As far as length of time taken to test it, well thats up to you.  I
 know that either you like it and its usefull or you don't and you
don't use it.  If you get the guilts then see the rego info at the end.
  Basically is cardware plus a phone call to pick up a
message that will include your key.  I will send it Via Internet if
you have this available or post you back a letter if thats what you
                               want.
 I offer no indiction of any upgrades or guarantee no support but I will
say this is all I do after my usual work so no doubt if you send me
 a question or bug report, I will try and have an answer for you in
            24 hrs and suggestions will be looked into.
                                  
 This program has been tested to the best of my ability by several
  people and so far no major bugs although in an earlier version I
          happened to produce a 32 meg user base (HA HA).
                                  
                                  
                          NOW WHAT IT DOES
                                  
 I use Silver Xpress as my offline mail door/reader (A fine product
  of Hector Santos and Santronics Software) and Remote Access 2.02
   (In my opinion the best software for running a BBS By Wantree
                   Development & Andrew Milner).
 By The Way this program works with RA2.02 and Silver Xpress for RA
                            Version 5.00
 Problem was that in Silver Xpress you can set individual security
levels for different things but me being a lazy persion (most of my
  utils are written for this reason) I wanted something that made
their security level the same as that in RA.  I could remember them
from RA as in Donating Membership has a level of 26 so I would make
        them the same.  The rest basically grew from there.
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           Features   (+ indicates a registered feature)
           
		The Security Level and flags options are selectable in the
                          RA2SX.CFG file.
                          
       If turned on will adjust the security level in
        XPUSER.DAT to that in RA 
                                  
     If selected will turn on or off flags in RA depending on 
  if the user has AUTOSTART and VACATION SAVER on in Silver Xpress
      (I use this to take the users on my BBS to Silver Xpress
                  instead of to the main menu etc)
                                  
      Will write a file called NO-USER.LST listing the number
     of the user in XPUSER.DAT, the name and whether the user has
     Vacation saver turned on posibly meaning there is mail packets
     waiting for him if the user is no longer listed in USERS.BBS
     (The RA user Base).  It is up to you to delete the users listed
     or leave them there. 
     
	 + Will back up XPUSER.DAT
	 
	 + Will write to the log file.
	 

                  Now for the *******SET UP*******

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   Drop the RA2SX.EXE and RA2SX.CFG file in the same directory as
  Silver Xpress.  Make sure the RA enviroment is set and edit the
   config file.  An example config file is included but all lines
                     ****MUST*** be filled in..
                                  
EG:
Peter May               
CUFFS BBS
00000
T:\logfiles\ra2sx.log
Y
C6
C8

Line 1]	  Name as in Remote Access	****EXACTLY AS IN RA*****
Line 2] System name as in Remote Access *****EXACTLY AS IN RA*******
Line 3]   Registration number or 00000 if not registered
Line 4]   Full Path and file name to log file ****MUST HAVE A file
name even if not registered.
LINE 5]   Y or N Y for alter security levels and N for don't alter
security levels.
LINE 6]   The flag in Remote Access to turn on if the user has AUTO
START on in Silver Xpress.  If not required use * .  Must
be a valid Flag as in A1...A2...D8 etc or *
LINE 7]   The flag in Remote Access to turn on if the user has
VACATION SAVER on in Silver Xpress.  If not required
use * .  Must be a valid Flag as in A1...A2...D8 etc or *


      >>>>>>>>>>>>NOTE   infact a BIG NOTE<<<<<<<

Lines 5 6 & 7 must have a vaild Y/N for line 5 and A1 to C8 for 6
and 7 followed by an  return an no spaces.

I am in the middle of doing a config util to stop any problems.....

Failure to follow the above will most likely cause a run time error.


 Thats it.  Run RA2SX.EXE By itself.  Have no other program running
 at the same time that uses XPUSER.DAT or USERS.BBS as this program
  can be called to write to both these files..  If the program is
  registered it will create a backup of XPUSER.DAT by the name of
 DATE.PRE as in 3-12-95.PRE.  This file will only be written once a
  day.  That is if the file already exists when the program is run
     then no further backup will be created for that day/date.
                                  
  Some error levels are retuned by the program if a fault exists.
                                  
                             They are:
                                  
            (1) Wrong Name or System name in RA2SX.CFG 
           Spelling and capital letters must be the same
    (2) Can't locate XPUSER.DAT Exe file and CFG file must be in
                      Silver Xpress directory
        (3) Can't Locate Users.Bbs.  Usually means that RA's
                  enviroment	is not set correctly.
      (4) The line containing the FLAG or * for the AUTO START
            setting in the config file is not correct. 	
    (5) The line containing the FLAG or * for the VACATION SAVER
             setting in the config file is not correct.
              (6) NO RA2SX.CFG file..... Say no more.
             (7) Could not find CONFIG.RA. See error 3
    (8) Can't Create NO-USER.LST.  Usually because of a lack of
                            disk space.
     (9) The line with the Y or N as in LINE 5 in RA2SX.CFG is
                            incorrect 	
                                  
 I offer no really cool graphics etc as this program will mostly be
 run in batch files for nightly maintenance so whats the point and
                    also I am hopeless at them.
  If unregisterd it will pause long enough to read the screen and
 therefore it will take longer to run.  Why?  Because it will still
write errors to the screen instead of a log file but you need to be
                     able to see them. HEY!!!!!
                                  
                                  
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WHAT ELSE


  Nothing really.  I use it.  My mates use it so why not you.  To
 register it send me a post card of you town/city.  I need to know
your name and your BBS's name exactly as in RA.  If it is spelt with
 capitals then I need to know.  One letter out of place and it will
pull up in a screaming heap.  My system is CUFFS BBS if I put CuFFS
 BBS then no go.  Pretty basic isn't it????  It has to be for me to
understand.  I will return you a 20 letter/number combination to put
in the config file and you are away...  You can either pick it up on
                     my system by polling me on
                                  
                           FIDO 3:620/247
                         SIGNET 28:2600/304
                                  
                          Or contact me on
                       COMPUSERVE 100241,3214
                                or 
                          may@pi.csiro.au
               If you want to have a look around then
             call CUFFS BBS on Australia 61+6+288-7801
             
                        Mailing Address is:
                             CUFFS BBS
                            P O Box 66 
                            Griffith ACT
                           Australia 2603
                           

             Also please send any comments to the above
              address's even if you have no guilts and
                      don't want to register.
                                  
  Enjoy and regards Peter May.
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