Document interactive sessions and add link to libreadline.

[paraslash.git] / web / manual.m4

diff --git a/web/manual.m4 b/web/manual.m4
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--- a/web/manual.m4
+++ b/web/manual.m4
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ All connections between para_server and para_client are encrypted
 with a symmetric RC4 session key. For each user of paraslash you must
 create a public/secret RSA key pair for authentication.
 
+If para_client is started without non-option arguments, an interactive
+session (shell) is started. Command history and command completion are
+supported through libreadline.
 
 *para_audiod*
 
@@ -135,7 +138,8 @@ socket credentials, if available.
 
 The client program which talks to para_audiod. Used to control
 para_audiod, to receive status info, or to grab the stream at any
-point of the decoding process.
+point of the decoding process. Like para_client, para_audioc supports
+interactive sessions on systems with libreadline.
 
 *para_recv*
 
@@ -223,6 +227,10 @@ In any case you'll need
        distro, but you might have to install the development package
        (libssl-dev or libgcrypt-dev on debian systems) as well.
 
+       - XREFERENCE(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gengetopt/, gengetopt)
+       is needed to generate the C code for the command line parsers
+       of all paraslash executables.
+
        - XREFERENCE(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/help2man, help2man)
        is used to create the man pages.
 
@@ -258,6 +266,10 @@ Optional:
        libao). Needed to build the ao writer (ESD, PulseAudio,...).
        Debian package: libao-dev.
 
+       - XREFERENCE(http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html,
+       GNU Readline). If this library (libreadline-dev) is installed,
+       para_client and para_audioc support interactive sessions.
+
 Installation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -1804,11 +1816,6 @@ branches, below), the git source code management tool is used for
 paraslash development. It is necessary for cloning the git repository
 and for getting updates.
 
-ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gengetopt/ (gengetopt). The C code for
-the command line parsers of all paraslash executables is generated
-by gengetopt. The generated C files are shipped in the tarballs but
-are not contained in the git repository.
-
 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4/ (m4). Some input files for gengetopt
 are generated from templates by the m4 macro processor.