Backtalk Documentation

The following documentation is included in this distribution:

• License. Standard Gnu Public License.

• Backtalk Glossary - Terms and definitions for Backtalk.

• Installation Manual - Detailed step-by-step instructions on how to install Backtalk on your system.

• Customizing Backtalk Authentication - For people who want to modify Backtalk to share user logins and passwords with other web packages.

• Administration Manual - Detailed descriptions of procedures for performing basic Backtalk administrative actions either directly from the Backtalk web interface, or from Unix. Topics include:
  • Conference Creation.
  • Conference Deletion.
  • Changing Fairwitnesses.
  • Opening and Closing Conferences.
  • Editing Conference Items.
  • User Account Creation.
  • User Validation and Invalidation.
  • Changing User Passwords.
  • User Deletion.

• Script Language Reference Manual - A reference manual for the Backtalk script language, useful to those who want to write or customize Backtalk scripts.

• Script Language Tutorial Manual - An introduction to Backtalk script programming.

• Backtalk File Formats - Description of various versions of various file formats used by Backtalk. Incomplete.

• Version History - A list of changes in Backtalk release versions.