====== doomsday-shell-text ====== 

===== 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|IWAD files]]. 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//.