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Tranche User's Guide

1. Introduction

• What is Tranche?
• Basics - What can Trache do?
• Compared against existing systems (BitTorrent, FTP, email)

2. Key Elements for Using Tranche

• System requirements
• What is a Hash?
• How to register

3. Getting Started

• Opening Tranche
• Logging in
• Layout description
• Quickstart - How to Download
• Potential Firewall Issues
• Run Tranche as Background Process
• Quickstart - How to Upload
• Upload Tips
• Run Tranche as Background Process
• Licensing options
• Verifying uploads successful
• How to add a webpage/website to your data
• Suggestions for use
• Manuscripts, how to reference
• How to email hashes
• Methods for publishing your data in a peer-reviewed manuscript
• Running Tranche in the background

4. Advanced Use

• Administrating a server
• Setting up a server
• Creating a new user
• Adding a new administrator
• Installing in a headless environment
• Downloading data using command line tool
• Uploading data using command line tool
• Customize your own Tranche upload wizard.
• How to download everything on the network
• HTTP proxy services
• Proxy download services
• Proxy upload services
• Tranche working with existing tools

5. Development

• Developer walkthrough using Subversion and Netbeans
• Example code
• Getting the source-code
• Building the source-code
• Extending Tranche with software modules
• Creating new Java plugins
• Binding existing Java or non-Java applications
• Developer contact information
• Downloading data using Java API
• Uploading data using Java API

6. Open-Source resources

• How to help our project

7. Credits and Collaborations

• Developers/Key Contacts
• Collaborations

8. FAQ

9. Troubleshooting