debian man page for beef

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NAME
       beef - flexible Brainfuck interpreter

SYNOPSIS
       beef [OPTIONS] FILE

DESCRIPTION
       beef  is  a  Brainfuck  interpreter  written  in  C. It is written with flexibility and portability in mind: it is not the smallest nor the
       fastest Brainfuck interpreter on Earth, but it has some options to control his behavior and doesn't suffer most of  the	limitations  which
       are usually present in Brainfuck interpreters.

       One  of	the best features of beef is that it has no limitations on the length of the tape, which is created dinamically, and allows you to
       move in any direction, even to move an unlimited amount of cells left when you are on the starting cell.

       beef also allows you to control his behavior in case it reads and EOF from the input stream: see below for a list of available options.

OPTIONS
       -d     Enable debugging. The debugging command # is not part of the Brainfuck language, but it's an useful feature for the  programmer,	so
	      most interpreters implement it. Debugging is off by default.

       -e     When  read  an  EOF  from  input, store an EOF in the current cell. This is for compatibility with programs written for other inter-
	      preters; the default behavior is to store a 0 in the current cell when an EOF is read.

       -n     When read an EOF from input, do nothing. This is the default behavior in some other interpreters, so it's supported in beef for com-
	      patibility reasons.  The default behavior is to store a 0 on the current cell instead.

       --version
	      Show the version number and exit successfully.

       --help Show a short help message and exit with success.

EXIT STATUS
       beef returns an exit staus of zero on success, or an exit status of -1 if it was unable to perform the requested operation.

       Please  note  that  no checks are performed on the code: if the code you are trying to run is buggy, beef will run it anyway and the result
       will probably differ from what you expected.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by KiyuKo <eof AT kiyuko DOT org>

0.0.6								 February 01, 2007							   BEEF(1)