deal - Man Page

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

deal is a program to generate bridge hands.

When deal is first run, it will create its configuration directory, ~/.deal and copy files from the deal system installation into that directory.  Users are free to make changes to their private configuration files.

-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 satisfy 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.

HTML Documentation <file:///usr/share/doc/deal/html/index.html>, /usr/share/deal.

deal was written by Thomas Andrews <deal@thomaso.best.vwh.net>, <https://bridge.thomasoandrews.com/deal/>.

This manual page was copied from Christoph Berg's (<cb@df7cb.de>) manual page from the Debian project.