NAME

     doomsday-shell-text - Utility for controlling and monitoring Doomsday servers

SYNOPSIS

     doomsday-shell-text

OPTIONS

     This version of doomsday-shell-text does not support any command line options.

INTRODUCTION

     The Shell is a utility for controlling and monitoring Doomsday servers. It has a curses-
     based terminal-friendly UI that allows one to connect to local and remote Doomsday servers.
     One can also start new servers on the local machine.

     Once connected to a server, a console command line is provided for controlling the server.

USER INTERFACE

   Menu
     Press F9, ^C, or ^Z to open the menu.

           Connect to...   Open a connection to a server at a given IP address.

           Disconnect      Disconnect the current connection. The server will not be stopped.

           Start local server
                           Starts a new Doomsday server on the local machine. A dialog will open
                           for configuring the game mode, server's TCP port, and other launch
                           options. You must ensure that Doomsday will be able to locate the
                           required IWAD files (https://manual.dengine.net/IWAD). After the
                           server launches, a connection to it is opened automatically.

           Scroll to bottom
                           Scrolls the log entry history down to the bottom of the buffer, to the
                           latest received log entry.

           About           Information about the Shell utility.

           Exit            Exit the Shell. Any running servers will not be stopped.

   Console
     A console command line is provided for interacting with a connected server. These commands
     will get you started:

           help            Show some general level help about using the console interface.

           apropos         Look up commands and variables containing a specific word.

     The PageUp and PageDown keys scroll the log entry history.

SEE ALSO

     doomsday(6)

AUTHOR

     This documentation has been written by Jaakko Keränen <jaakko.keranen@iki.fi>.