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Directories -- crash course.
1 of 8: Every system has directories. Different things are stored in different directories.
2 of 8: All the systems in the game that you have access to have five directories.
3 of 8: These are 'sys', 'rec', 'log', 'usr' and 'pub'.
4 of 8: You can access three of these from the console.
5 of 8: The three you can access are 'sys', 'log' and 'usr'.
6 of 8: 'usr' is where the File Server checks for data.
7 of 8: 'log' is where the system holds its Access Logs.
8 of 8: 'sys' is where the system holds its system data (boot.sys, kernel.sys and os.sys) -- these are (in the same order), the boot sequence controller, the system/file manager and the Operating System definer.
