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+<h1 align="center">Bat User's Guide</h1>
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+<h4>The Console</h4>
+
+<p>The Console is the interface that displays all of the text that would
+normally be displayed in bconsole. Use the command window that by default is
+at the bottom of the window to manually enter in any command like would be done
+with bconsole.
+
+<p>An alphabetic list of the commands can be found on the following web url
+http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Bacula_Console.html
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<h1 align="center">Bat User's Guide</h1>
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-Test Bacula Administration Tool (bat) User's guide.
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+The User's guide, for the Bacula Administration Tool.
<br>
-Sorry no contents yet. Maybe someone would like to write this?
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+<h4>Contents.</h4>
+
+<p>The <a href=console.html>Console</a>
+
+<h4>Welcome and What is The BAT.</h4>
+
+<p>Welcome to the bacula administration tool. The bat is a graphical interface
+to communicate with and administer the bacula director daemon. If you have been
+using bacula for a while, your familiar with bconsole, the text based interface
+to administer bacula. With bat, the user can use the console class to perform
+any command that can be done from bconsole, and more.
+
+<p>The bat is bconsole with extra communication capabilities and a set of
+graphical user interfaces that utilize those capabilities. A bat programmer is
+able to design interfaces interact with the director in all ways that a user
+can, by executing commands. When a command is entered by the interface, bat
+will type in the command in the console and will often times change the
+interface visible to the console so that the user can see the command as well
+as the resulting output from the director. Bat can also do some requests of the
+daemon, that the user normally would not do. These would be the ability to
+retrieve lists of various resources and also to perform requests of the director
+to query the sql server the daemon is using and return the results to bat.
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