DOOMSDAY-SHELL-TEXT(6)

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💖 DOOMSDAY-SHELL-TEXT(6) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for doomsday-shell-text, a lil utility for controlling and monitoring Doomsday servers. it lives in the LOCAL section, and yes the original header literally just said UNTITLED() like it woke up and chose mystery, but we're giving it the name it deserves: doomsday-shell-text(6) ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

doomsday-shell-text — a whole utility for controlling and monitoring Doomsday servers 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

doomsday-shell-text

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay so, plot twist: this version of doomsday-shell-text does not support any command line options. not one. not a single flag. it's giving minimalist 👑

💅 INTRODUCTION 💅

The Shell is a utility for controlling and monitoring Doomsday servers. no cap.

it's got a curses-based, terminal-friendly UI — so it's cute and it works in your terminal — and it lets you connect to both local and remote Doomsday servers. you can also start brand new servers right on the local machine, like, yourself. main character energy fr fr 🫶

once you're connected to a server, you get a console command line for controlling that server. that's the whole vibe.

🌈 USER INTERFACE 🌈

press F9, ^C, or ^Z to open the menu. that's your way in 💖

  • Connect to... — Open a connection to a server at a given IP address.
  • Disconnect — Disconnect the current connection. lowkey important: the server will not be stopped. it just keeps existing without you. iconic independence honestly.
  • 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. 🚨 heads up bestie: 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. slay.
  • Scroll to bottom — Scrolls the log entry history down to the bottom of the buffer, to the latest received log entry. very "take me to the most recent thing" of it all.
  • About — Information about the Shell utility. the little self-lore drop 📖
  • Exit — Exit the Shell. any running servers will not be stopped. she leaves, they stay. no notes.

💜 Console 💜

A console command line is provided for interacting with a connected server. these two commands will get you started, fr:

  • help — Show some general level help about using the console interface.
  • apropos — Look up commands and variables containing a specific word. it's giving search-but-make-it-nerdy 🔍

also, the PageUp and PageDown keys scroll the log entry history. yes, like normal. yes, it's still worth saying. 🦋

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

doomsday(6)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This documentation has been written by Jaakko Keränen <jaakko.keranen@iki.fi>. thank you for your service, king 🫡

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came from the Debian crew, dated helmikuuta 4, 2021 (that's February 4, 2021 in Finnish, cute right?) and it's filed under DOOMSDAY-SHELL-TEXT(6). go forth and monitor those servers ✨🎀🦋

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