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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)