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.SH "NAME"
freedm \- Automatically launch Freedoom with an engine
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\fBfreedm\fR [\fI\-p\fR \fIPORT\fR|\fI\-\-\fR] [\fIARGS\fR]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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Freedoom is a project to create a complete free\-content game based on the \fIDoom\fR engine (often called \(lqsource ports\(rq or simply \(lqports\(rq), which itself is free software\&. In addition, it maintains compatibility with \fIDoom\fR itself and is capable of playing the wide variety of modifications (\(lqmods\(rq) that have been released by an active community since 1993\&.
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This command is a simple shell script to assist in running Freedoom, which is not a game engine itself nor part of any engine project, but playing Freedoom should remain simple\&. Only accepted as the first argument, you may pass \fI\-p PORT\fR, which will run Freedoom using the \fIPORT\fR specified\&. As an alternative, you may make a symbolic link named $HOME/\&.doomport to your preferred port\&. A port specified on the command line explicitly overrides $HOME/\&.doomport, whereas the existence of the symbolic link will override the detection of port based on a hard\-coded list\&.
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Additional arguments passed to the program, or after specifying \fI\-\-\fR as the first option, will be passed to the engine being called\&. This can allow you to use options such as \fI\-file\fR to load mods or anything else available with the engine of choice\&.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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Freedoom is licensed under a permissive three\-clause BSD license\&. For details, see the source tree or any COPYING/COPYRIGHT file that may have been installed by distribution packaging\&.
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This manual page and the launcher script are both placed under the public domain\&.