+With each newly created window, a shell program is spawned with its
+process environment tailored to that window. In particular,
+a pseudo-terminal device (\fIpty (4)\fP) is allocated, and becomes
+the standard input, output and diagnostic output of the shell. It's
+special characters and modes (see \fIstty (1)\fP) are copied from
+the user's real terminal. Also,
+a \fItermcap (5)\fP entry for this window is created
+and passed to the shell as \fIenviron (8)\fP
+variable \fBTERMCAP\fP. This \fItermcap\fP entry contains the window's
+size and characteristics as well as information about
+the real terminal, such as the existence of underline, reverse
+video and other display modes, and the codes produced by the terminal's
+keypad (if any).
+.PP
+When \fIwindow\fP starts up, the file \fI.windowrc\fP in the
+user's home directory is checked. If it exists, then the
+commands contained in it are executed (see \fIsource\fP command below).
+If \fI.windowrc\fP does not exist, then two
+equal sized windows are created by default.
+.PP
+The command line arguments are
+.TP
+.B -t
+Turn on terse mode (see \fIterse\fP command below).
+.TP
+.B -f
+Don't perform any startup action.
+.TP
+.B -d
+Ignore \fI.windowrc\fP and create the two default
+windows instead.
+.TP
+.B -e escape-char
+Set the escape character to \fIescape-char\fP.
+.PP