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 inputted 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/> .

Freecell Solver 3.20.0                             2013-07-07                                           HOOLA(6)