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DEAL(6) 							   Games Manual 							   DEAL(6)

NAME

       deal - bridge hand generator

SYNOPSIS

       deal [ -ltv ] [ -e expr ] [ -i condition file ] [ -I format ] [ -s seed ] [ -[NSEW] hand-spec ] [ count ]

DESCRIPTION

       deal is a program to generate bridge hands.

OPTIONS

       -l     Write deals in a "single-line" format.

       -t     Print distribution table and exit.  The distribution table is an ordered list of all possible hand patterns for a single hand.

       -v     Be verbose, print sample count.

       -e expr
	      Evaluate the Tcl expression expr.

       -i condition file
	      File that defines the hand type to generate or the output format.  (Can be given multiple times.)

       -I format
	      Read  hands from stdin.  Formats available are: ddline, giblib, line, pbn, smartstack.  You might deal, say, 10,000 hands which sat-
	      isfy specific criteria, saving them to a file.  Then you can use that output for input with deal -I to find out which hands  satisfy
	      other constraints.

       -s seed
	      Initialize random generator with seed.

       -[NSEW] hand-spec
	      Specifies  the cards held by the specified hand. The hand-spec should be of the form: "AK8532 - KQ72 A65". Voids must be represented
	      with a '-' character.  hand-spec should be one argument, so the string should be quoted on the command line.

       count  Number of hands to generate, default is 10.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/deal/html, /usr/share/deal.

AUTHOR

       deal was written by Thomas Andrews <deal@thomaso.best.vwh.net>.

       This manual page was written by Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  January 1, 2005							   DEAL(6)

PESCETTI(1)						      General Commands Manual						       PESCETTI(1)

NAME

       pescetti -- Pseudo-Duplimate Generator

SYNOPSIS

       pescetti

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pescetti command.

OPTIONS

       Here are a list of the available options and what they do. You must specify exactly one from --demo, --generate or --load.

       --help	 Prints the help text

       --demo	 Demonstration mode. Generates one hand with permutations and the tutorial for how to use them.

       --generate=N
		 Generate N random boards

       --load=boards.txt
		 Load boards+analysis from boards.txt

       --load-dds=boards.dds
		 Load boards from boards.dds in dds format

       --load-analysis=tricks.txt
		 Load analysis from tricks.txt

       --permutations=permutations.txt
		 Generate the permutations and save them to the given file

       --curtains=curtains.txt
		 Save curtain cards to file curtains.txt

       --save=boards.txt
		 Save the boards+analysis to boards.txt

       --save-dds=boards.dds
		 Save the boards to boards.dds in dds format

       --save-analysis=tricks.txt
		 Save the analysis to tricks.txt

       --format=html|txt|pdf
		 Set the output mode to the given format

       --title=title
		 Set the title for the output

       --output=hands.txt
		 Print the hands to hands.txt, rather than to standard output

       --stats	 Generate statistics about the set of boards; included in the hands output

       --analyze Run the dds analyzer on the boards and print the resulting numberof tricks (warning SLOW)

       --criteria=
		 A  list of criteria to apply to each generated hand to generate specific hand types.  The list should be space separated and each
		 item may be suffixed with a colon and a (fractional) probability value which can be used to weight the criteria.

		 E.g. --criteria="weaknt:0.8 strongnt:0.5"

		 Valid criteria are: unbalanced weaknt strongnt twont strongtwo weaktwo three twoclubs 4441  singlesuit  twosuits  partscore  game
		 slam game-invite slam-invite jumpshift jumpfit splinter bacon weird

       --probability=factor
		 Generate  hands matching the criteria with only the given probability. Factor is in the range 0 to 1. On each attempt to generate
		 a board it is rejected if it doesn't match the criteria with the given probability.  A factor of about  0.8  gives  roughly  half
		 matching boards

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Matthew Johnson <debian@matthew.ath.cx>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
       ment under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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