1deal(1)                      Generate Bridge Hands                     deal(1)
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NAME

6       deal - bridge hand generator
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SYNOPSIS

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

12       deal is a program to generate bridge hands.
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14       When deal is first run, it will create its configuration directory,
15       ~/.deal and copy files from the deal system installation into that
16       directory.  Users are free to make changes to their private
17       configuration files.
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OPTIONS

20       -l  Write deals in a "single-line" format.
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22       -t  Print distribution table and exit.  The distribution table is an
23           ordered list of all possible hand patterns for a single hand.
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25       -v  Be verbose, print sample count.
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27       -e expr
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30       -i condition-file
31           File that defines the hand type to generate or the output format.
32           (Can be given multiple times.)
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34       -I format
35           Read hands from stdin.  Formats available are: ddline, giblib,
36           line, pbn, smartstack.  You might deal, say, 10,000 hands which
37           satisfy specific criteria, saving them to a file.  Then you  can
38           use  that output for input with deal -I to find out which hands
39           satisfy other constraints.
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41       -s seed
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44       -[NSEW] hand-spec
45           Specifies the cards held by the specified  hand.  The  hand-spec
46           should be of the form: "AK8532 - KQ72 A65".  Voids must be
47           represented with a  '-'  character.  hand-spec should be one
48           argument, so the string should be quoted on the command line.
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51           Number of hands to generate, default is 10.
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SEE ALSO

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

58       deal was written by Thomas Andrews <deal@thomaso.best.vwh.net>,
59       <https://bridge.thomasoandrews.com/deal/>.
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61       This manual page was copied from Christoph Berg's (<cb@df7cb.de>)
62       manual page from the Debian project.
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66perl v5.36.0                      2022-07-21                           deal(1)