* In a message originally to Daryl Stout, James Coyle said:

 > In order to install and have a fully working telnet BBS in Windows, you 
 > have to
 > run literally two commands in Windows:

 > install
 > mis

 > How you managed to make that so difficult is beyond me, but you can't 
 > blame
 > Mystic for the wild ideas that you seem to come up with.  If you do the 
 > same
 > things you did with *any BBS software* you'll get a same or similar 
 > outcome.

 > I think its time to switch to one of those "easy" to use
packages that you 
 > keep
 > mentioning!  You've gone out of your way to make a post dumping on Mystic 
 > many
 > times now, and I can assure you that I'm no longer going to bother wasting 
 > my
 > breath trying to help you as a result.

 > Just note that if you install over top of your BBS with a new 
 > installation,
 > you're still going to lose your configuration even with other software.  
 > If you
 > edit FILES.BBS into an unknown format, its still not going to import with 
 > other
 > software.  If you don't understand how to execute doors now, you won't 
 > with
 > other software either.  The list goes on and on...

 > --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A11 (Windows)

I would have to agree with you here -- installing Mystic is basically 
a "two and done" prospect as far as getting a basic installation up 
an running -- on any of the supported operating systems.  My problem 
is getting up the gumption to sit down on my ass and learn MPL :)

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