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make-aisleriot-freecell-board(6)


NAME

   make-gnome-freecell-board, make-aisleriot-freecell-board,
   make-microsoft-freecell-board, make-pysol-freecell-board - Programs to
   generate boards to be used as input to Freecell Solver.

SYNOPSIS

   program [-t] board-number

   or for make-pysol-freecell-board:

   program [-t] [-F] board-number [game-string]

   or for make-aisleriot-freecell-board:

   program [-t] board-number [game-string]

DESCRIPTION

   These programs are command-line programs that can generate the initial
   board of the Freecell games of several popular Solitaire
   implementations. Those boards can be in turn be input to fc-solve by
   means of a pipeline, or placed inside a file for safe-keeping.

   make-pysol-freecell-board and make-aisleriot-freecell-board also accept
   an optional third argument which indicates the game type. This type
   defaults to  Freecell, but is useful for generating the boards of other
   games.  Note that  using this flag does not preclude one from using the
   "--game" flag of fc-solve.

   make_pysol_freecell_board.py accepts another parameter called -F or
   --pysolfc that deals the PySolFC boards instead of the classic PySol
   ones.

   A common paradigm for using those programs is something like:

       bash:~$ make-microsoft-freecell-board 11982 | fc-solve -l gi

   If the "-t" option is specified, then the 10 cards are printed with
   "T"'s, instead of "10"'s. While this does not have any effect on fc-
   solve it may prove useful for other solvers or solitaire
   implementations which do not accept "10"'s.

   Here is a short description of each program:

   make-gnome-freecell-board

   Generate the boards of the standalone Freecell program that comes with
   the GNOME desktop.

   make-aisleriot-freecell-board

   Generate the Freecell boards of GNOME's AisleRiot.

   make-pysol-freecell-board

   A Python script that generates the boards of the various games of
   PySol.

   make-microsoft-freecell-board

   A program that generates the boards of Microsoft Freecell and of the
   Freecell Pro implementation of Freecell.

OPTIONS

   board-number is the board number as a decimal number.

   game-string is a string describing the game. Valid strings and their
   respective games are:

   bakers_game        - Baker's Game (*)

   bakers_dozen       - Baker's Dozen (Broken) (*)

   beleaguered_castle - Beleaguered Castle (*)

   citadel            - Citadel

   cruel              - Cruel

   der_katz           - Der Katzenschwantz

   die_schlange       - Die Schlange

   eight_off          - Eight Off (*)

   fan                - Fan

   forecell           - Forecell

   freecell           - Freecell (the default)

   good_measure       - Good Measure

   ko_bakers_game     - Kings' Only Baker's Game

   relaxed_freecell   - Relaxed Freecell

   relaxed_seahaven   - Relaxed Seahaven Towers

   seahaven           - Seahaven Towers (*)

   simple_simon       - Simple Simon (*)

   streets_and_alleys - Streets and Alleys

   make-aisleriot-freecell-board supports only the games marked with an
   asterisk (*).

SEE ALSO

   fc-solve (6)

   /usr/share/doc/freecell-solver-bin/README.board_gen

AUTHOR

   Shlomi Fish, <http://www.shlomifish.org/> .



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