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 ====== Configuring System Paths ======
-This section of the Mystic BBS Configuration System allows the SysOp to configure a number of system paths for the BBS software.
+This section of the Mystic BBS Configuration System allows the SysOp to configure a number of system paths for the BBS software. These paths are usually set up when the software is installed but can be changed at any stage.
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+This example is from a Windows based system and displays the standard 'out of the box' pathways that ship with the default installation.
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-  █  System Path       │ c:\bbs\mystic\                                 █
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-  █  Data File Path    │ c:\bbs\mystic\data\                            █
+      █                                                                     █
-  █  Log File Path     │ c:\bbs\mystic\logs\                            █
+      █  System Path       │ c:\bbs\mystic\                                 █
-  █  Message Base Path │ c:\bbs\mystic\msgs\                            █
+      █  Data File Path    │ c:\bbs\mystic\data\                            █
-  █  File Attach Path  │ c:\bbs\mystic\attach\                          █
+      █  Log File Path     │ c:\bbs\mystic\logs\                            █
-  █  Semaphore Path    │ c:\bbs\mystic\semaphor\                        █
+      █  Message Base Path │ c:\bbs\mystic\msgs\                            █
-  █  Menu File Path    │ c:\bbs\mystic\menus\                           █
+      █  File Attach Path  │ c:\bbs\mystic\attach\                          █
-  █  Text File Path    │ c:\bbs\mystic\text\                            █
+      █  Semaphore Path    │ c:\bbs\mystic\semaphor\                        █
-  █  Script Path       │ c:\bbs\mystic\scripts\                         █
+      █  Menu File Path    │ c:\bbs\mystic\menus\                           █
-  █  Inbound EchoMail  │ c:\bbs\mystic\echomail\in\                     █
+      █  Text File Path    │ c:\bbs\mystic\text\                            █
-  █         Unsecured  │ c:\bbs\mystic\echomail\in\unsec\               █
+      █  Script Path       │ c:\bbs\mystic\scripts\                         █
-  █  Outbound EchoMail │ c:\bbs\mystic\echomail\out\fidonet\            █
+      █  Inbound EchoMail  │ c:\bbs\mystic\echomail\in\                     █
-  █  Local QWK         │ c:\bbs\mystic\localqwk\                        █
+      █         Unsecured  │ c:\bbs\mystic\echomail\in\unsec\               █
-  █                                                                     █
+      █  Outbound EchoMail │ c:\bbs\mystic\echomail\out\fidonet\            █
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+      █  Local QWK         │ c:\bbs\mystic\localqwk\                        █
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+=== System Path ===
+The system path is the main BBS directory where MYSTIC.EXE and its supporting files are located.  In almost
+all cases, this directory never needs to be changed.
+=== Data File Path ===
+The data path is the directory where Mystic BBS will store all of it's data files.  In almost all cases, this directory never needs to be changed.
+=== Log File Path ===
+The system logs path is the directory where Mystic BBS will keep an updated log file of BBS activity.  The log files can be used to see what each caller was doing while they were online.  These files are not used by Mystic BBS and exist for information purposes only.
+=== Message Base Path ===
+The message base path is the default directory where Mystic BBS will store it's message base data files.
+=== File Attach Path ===
+The file attach path is the directory where Mystic BBS will store files that are attached to messages.  Mystic BBS allows users to optionally include a file to any message posted on the BBS system.
+=== Semaphore Path ===
+The semaphore path is the directory where Mystic BBS creates semaphores as messages are sent or received by the BBS. These semaphores are 0kb files that the Events system can take advantage of to trigger actions to process incoming or outgoing messages as it finds them in this directory. Once messages are imported or exported the semaphore is removed.
+=== Menu File Path ===
+The menu file path is the default directory where Mystic BBS will store it's menu data files.
+=== Text File Path ===
+The textfile path is the default directory where Mystic BBS will store it's ANSI (.ANS) and ASCII (.ASC) files along with a number of configuration files (.INI) for the likes of the file index reader, message editor etc.
+=== Script Path ===
+The script path is the directory where all compiled Mystic BBS programming files are found.  Mystic BBS supports an internal programming language (MPL and more recently Python) that can be used by SysOps to create games, utilities, or BBS enhancements with ease.
+=== Inbound EchoMail ===
+The directory where inbound netmail / echomail packets received by BinkP, FTP, Directory or Fidopoll sessions from known Echomail Nodes are stored.
+=== Inbound EchoMail Unsecured ===
+The directory where inbound netmail / echomail packets received by BinkP, FTP, Directory or Fidopoll sessions from unknown Echomail Nodes are stored.
+=== Outbound EchoMail ===
+The directory where outbound netmail / echomail packets destined for Echomail Nodes are stored.
+=== Local QWK  ===
+The local QWK is the directory where Mystic BBS will create QWK offline mail packets if the user is logged into the BBS locally.  This directory usually points to the same directory of your offline mail reader, if you use one.