te> However, this doesn't appear to be automatic? In the Mystic documentation
 te> (Mystic BBS Sysop Documentation - By James Coyle), it mentions under the
 te> section "Installing Multiple Nodes of Mystic BBS", "Load EACH node you
 te> wish to setup in local mode" (
 te> Example mystic -N2 -L).

If you see that then you are reading the documentation from the DOS version
from the mid 1990s.

For documentation the wiki and YouTube (search MysticGuy) are good places to
go as well as asking here of course.  fsxNet is where most of the action is
regarding Mystic discussion these days but there are people all over who will
try to help you.

Here is some informatino from the Wiki:

Q: How do I configure the number of nodes Mystic will accept?
A: The first step is to set the "Max BBS Nodes" in your System Configuration >
  Servers > General Options section in the configuration.  This defines the
  max number of nodes you will allow at one time.  However, there is slightly
  more to consider.
  
  BBS Nodes can be spawned by any number of built in Mystic servers, or also
  from external sources for things such as dial-up modems, local logins from
  the console, etc.  The max BBS nodes is a limit to the sum of all possible
  ways Mystic can accept BBS node connections.
  
  In the Servers > Configure servers configuration you will see options to
  modify or create TELNET, RLogin, and SSH servers.  You can create any number
  of these servers on any ports, and each one can have a limit of the number of
  connections they will accept.  If you want to have 20 nodes but 3 of them
  available by SSH and 17 by Telnet, you would configure a Telnet server for
  17 max connections and a SSH server for 3 max connections and set your Max
  BBS nodes to 20 or more.
  
  The settings do not have to add up to Max BBS nodes.  If all BBS nodes are
  busy when a user connects, the user will simply be displayed a message
  informing them that all nodes are busy.  This means you can setup a 20 node
  BBS and then set up 3 different Telnet server and a SSH server all of which
  each allow 20 connections, and Mystic will allow any combination to fill up
  the BBS nodes.

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