Starting the program

Start the application (Bfront) by double clicking from the desktop. The resource file resource.rsc must be present in the same folder as the Bfront program. If present the default settings of the program will be read form the file bfront.dat. If the file is not present, this will be silently ignored.

A welcom box will be presented for the period of 1.5 seconds. During this time the mouse is disabled. After the welcom box, a permanent box is drawn on the desktop. The program is always started in List mode.

Bfront is a frontend to the BackupST program. The BackupST program will have its own screen memory during execution. You can toggle between the Bfront screen and the BackupST screen by using the ESC-key.

The BackupST program has both a mouse and a keyboard interface. The keyboard commands (keycommand) are an equivalent to the mouse commands. The ESC-key is the only keycommand which does not have a mouse equivalent.