Filenames used throughout the system.

Common filenames.
Full names of files used by the system for all sorts of storage requirements. I suppose you could change a few of these, BEFORE you install the BBS. I've documented those that are the most likely not to hurt anything (much).
o AUDITFILE
Full path to the Audit Trail
o BADPASSFILE
A list of forbidden passwords
o BADUIDFILE
A list of forbidden user IDs
o BAUDSTATFILE
Speed statistics log file
o CHANDEFFILE
Binary file where channels are defined
o GETTYDEFFILE
bbsgetty channel definition file
o CHANDEFSRCFILE
Text file where channels are defined
o CLASSFILE
Binary file where user classes are stored
o CLNUPAUDITFILE
Cleanup log file
o CLSSTATFILE
User class statistics log file
o DAYSTATFILE
Daily traffic log file
o DEMOSTATFILE
Demographics log file
o ERRORFILE
Fatal error log file
o ETCTTYFILE
The UNIX /etc/ttys file that maps terminal types to ttys
o FLETTRWORDS
A list of words used to create passwords
o LANGUAGEFILE
List of languages of the BBS
o LOGINMSGFILE
The login message of the day
o LOGINSCRIPT
The script that manages a user's entire session
o MENUMANINDEX
Index file for Menuman
o MENUMANPAGES
Page directory for Menuman
o MODSTATFILE
Module usage statistics log file
o MONITORFILE
The system monitor file
o PROTOCOLFILE
The file transfer protocol definition file
o RECENTFILE
The Megistos equivalent of utmp
o SYSVARFILE
The main system variable block
o SYSVARBKFILE
Backup of the system variables
o SYSVARSHMFILE
Shared memory ID of the system variable block
o TTYINFOFILE
Per-channel message of the day
o TTYSTATFILE
Channel usage statistics log file
o XLATIONFILE
Encoding translation table

Alphabetic index


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