This file is a tutorial to help individuals new to using Frost . It is
an attempt to assist you to become successful fairly quickly with the
frost application. This tutorial does not pretend to be an
exhaustive resource for all elements of the frost application.
This tutorial is intended to help you to gain confidence in
using the frost application for message sending and reading and
file retrieval and uploading. An excellent file for learning more
of the features of frost is located here.
Authors note: This tutorial covers features found in the
stable version of frost as well as some of the features that are a part
of the new unstable cutting edge versions of frost. If you come
upon a section that does not seem to apply to your version of frost,
please disregard that section. It most likely refers to the newer
versions of frost, which this author highly recommends you
download and try (doing a clean install of course). These unstable
versions are clearly marked in the downloads section of the Frost website.
The unstable versions include security enhancement features
intended to help frost to be a viable messaging/file tool for the
forseeable future.
Additional help may also be available in channel #frost on the Invisible IRC Project
Network if you still have further questions after working through
this tutorial.
This tutorial would not be complete without acknowledging the
original frost creator - Jantho. We are ever so indebted to his
tireless efforts to provide the freenet community with a useful and
useable messaging/file exchange application. Also thanks go to new
developers who are hard at work ( or is that hardly working? ha!
ha!) to improve frost so that it may be a viable freenet application for
some time to come. This includes Sandworm, zab, FillaMent, and any
others whom this author may not be familiar with who are actively
working to improve frost.
This manual can also be downloaded in zip
format