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>.