The KBear Handbook

Björn Sahlström <kbjorn@users.sourceforge.net>

Peter Swärd <tocool@telia.com>

Revision 0.9 (Sun Dec 01 13:00:00 CEST 2002)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

KBear is a graphical ftp client with ability to connect to multiple hosts simultanously.

This Handbook describes KBear Version 2.1

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Getting Started

Starting KBear

From the Menu
From the Command Line
First start

Working with KBear

3. Using KBear

Open a connection

The Quick Connect dialog
The SiteManager
The SiteManager menu
The Open Recent menu

Copy or move files and folders

Drag and drop
Cut and paste

Synchronizing directories

Add a new directory to synchronize
Open an existing synchronization.
Working with the Synchronizing tool.
Configuring the Synchronizing tool.

Additional views

Transfer view
Log view

4. Using The Sitemanager

General information

Earlier versions
The Database
The Sitemanager in Konqueror

Changing contents in the Sitemanager

Site and Group names in the Sitemanager
How to create a new site
How to create a new group
How to move a site or group
How to rename a site or group
How to remove a site or group
How to import bookmarks files
Advanced Settings

5. Configure KBear

View Settings

Window Settings

Miscellaneous Settings

Firewall Settings

How to setup the Firewall

6. Menu Entries

The FTP Menu
The Edit Menu
The View Menu
The Synchronize Menu
The SiteManager Menu
Tools Menu
The Settings Menu
The Window Menu

7. Credits and License

A. Installation

How to obtain and install KBear

How to obtain KBear
Requirements
Compilation and installation

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