The conference configuration screens specify the location of several files.

As you know, conferences are designed to separate groups of people and or common information together.

You will have different message bases for every conference but you may want to use the same door, script, and bulletin configurations for multiple conferences. For example, conference 1 and conference 3 on your system may have separate message bases, but you may want to make the same doors available in both conferences.

Rather than having to maintain two separate DOORS.LST files, you can have both conferences use the same DOORS.LST file. When you make a change to the file, the change will be seen in both conferences (because they are both reading from the same configuration file on disk). This would mean that conference 1 and 3 may have C:\PCB\GEN\DOORS.LST entered while conference 2 could have C:\CONF\2\DOORS.LST because it will have different doors defined.
This concept can be applied to any of the file locations in the conference configuration screens.