doomsday-shell-text(6)

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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, ˆC, or ˆZ 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>. GNU helmikuuta 4, 2021 DOOMSDAY-SHELL-TEXT(6)