NAME

       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] [--ms] board-number [game-string]

DESCRIPTION

       These programs are command-line programs that can generate the initial board of the 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 also accepts 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 still requires one to use the "--game" flag of fc-solve,
       if necessary.

       make-pysol-freecell-board also accepts a flag called -F or --pysolfc that deals the
       PySolFC boards instead of the classic PySol ones, and one called --ms or -M that deals
       Microsoft Freecell/Freecell Pro deals even for higher seeds.

       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 fc-solve can accept either as input, 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-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

       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

SEE ALSO

       fc-solve (6)

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

AUTHOR

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