SKYMENU is the command you should use to complete the installation of Skylink
(to set COM port, etc.) Then SKYMENU is also the command you will routinely use
to bring up a screen of buttons from which you can start any of the Skylink
functions - receiving data, using TV Agent, viewing weather maps, or reading
mail.

There are HELP buttons on the screens you'll see when you use SKYMENU; those
buttons will display the FIRSTSET.HLP, SKYMENU.HLP, and SETUP.HLP files,
depending on context. You can print out the *.HLP files from the DOS prompt if
you want hard copy with a command like C:\SKY31> COPY SKYMENU.HLP PRN  .

The rest of this file contains technical details you probably won't need.

----------------- Serial ports COM 3 & COM 4
There is no hardware standard for these ports. If your computer is exactly like
the one this version of the Skylink receive software was tested on, Skymenu
will supply the correct parameters in the TCXL.INI file. But if your computer
is different, these parameters might not work. Here are the lines Skymenu
inserts in TCXL.INI if you choose COM 3 or COM 4:

for COM 3:                 for COM 4:
SKYPORTBASE=3E8            SKYPORTBASE=2E8
SKYPORTIRQ=4               SKYPORTIRQ=3
SKYPORTVECTOR=0C           SKYPORTVECTOR=0B
SKYPORTMASK=10             SKYPORTMASK=8
SKYPORTPIC=21              SKYPORTPIC=21

If you choose COM 3 or COM 4 and it doesn't work, you may be able to make it
work by putting the correct values at the ends of those lines. Read the manual
that came with your I/O card. If you don't know what the correct values are,
neither do we, so you better go back to COM 1 or COM 2. These lines are not
included in TCXL.INI when you use COM 1 or COM 2.

----------------- TV Agent and changing the data drive
You set the data drive when you installed Skylink from the diskette. You should
have used the same drive when you installed TV Agent. If you want to change the
data drive later, you must adjust the SKYT.BAT file so that TV Agent can find
the TV listings. For instance if this is the
existing SKYT.BAT:                then adding lines like:

C:                               C:
CD \TV                           CD \TV
TVAGENT LEE                      COPY D:\TV\TVLIST*.ARC
C:                               DEL D:\TV\TVLIST*.ARC         (in this example
CD \SKY31                        TVAGENT LEE                 LEE is the default
SKYMENU                          C:                                     user)
                                 CD \SKY31
                                 SKYMENU

would allow TV Agent to work after you have made D: the data drive.

----------------- Mail Reader
OLXTD.EXE is a shareware mail reader that is regularly distributed on
Skylink. If you are using some other mail reader you need to alter the
SKYM.BAT file. It currently looks something like this:

C:
CD \SKYDATA\MAIL
OLXTD                            change this line so it uses your reader.
C:
CD \SKY31
SKYMENU

----------------- Starting from scratch
The file SKYR.BAT is the clue Skymenu uses to decide whether the initial Set Up
has been done. If you delete that file only the Set Up, Help, and Exit buttons
will show on the Skylink Menu. When you use Set Up, the SKYR.BAT and other .BAT
files will be created.

----------------- Tinkering with .BAT files
If you have special needs you can make simple adjustments to four of the BAT
files. SKYR.BAT begins the receive function; SKYT.BAT begins TV Agent; SKYW.BAT
begins weather; and SKYM.BAT begins mail. All those functions will execute
SKYMENU.BAT when they finish.

You can bypass the Skylink Menu and jump to one of those functions by using one
of those .BAT files instead of SKYMENU.BAT . For instance, if you want to let
the receive function run unattended and start up again after a power failure,
you could put SKYR in your AUTOEXEC.BAT . Don't forget to have the filter set
appropriately on the Set Up screen.
