Frost is a
messaging/file retrieval application for freenet. This document
provides a basic guideline for using frost. Please be aware that
in order to run frost, you must be running freenet. Now, let's get
into using frost!
Files and messaging are associated with various "boards" in frost.
In order to retrieve any possible messages or files for a given
board, one must update
that board. Frost does have an automatic update feature. Be
aware that the more boards you are updating, the longer it takes for
frost to obtain a list of messages/files for those given boards.
Also because of the anonymity/security features built into
freenet, when you update a board, you will most likely have to wait
until a list of messages/files is retrieved for your given board.
So best to update the boards of interest to you and go do some
other tasks and come back later to see your results.
If you have deselected Automatic Board update in the configuration
section, this page shows you how to manually update a board. If
you are using automatic board updating you can ignore this section.
First one clicks on a board. The above picture shows the
folder/board window with various boards that may come with your frost
application. When you select a board by left-clicking the board
name with your mouse, it gets highlighted in blue. In the example
the freesites board is highlighted. Once you have selected the
board , in order to begin receiving messages/file lists you must update
that board. To do so, left-click the circular arrow icon that is
highlighted in yellow and is located just beneath the downloads tab.
If you wish to know what any icon represents, just hover your
mouse pointer over that icon and a short text description should appear.
If you click on a folder, then it gets highlighted in blue.
Then clicking the highlighted circular icon updates all boards
associated with that particular folder.
You can also update a board by selecting the board name and then
right-clicking with your mouse. This will bring up a menu:
You can choose from among various
options in that window. Also you can select a folder and
right-click on it. The same window as above opens. If you
choose Refresh board/folder it will update all boards associated with
that particular folder.