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Downloading Deal |
This is a standalone release, just unzip it and you are ready to run. It will create a directory called "deal308."
Note: This is not a Windows program - it is a DOS program. If, after unzipping, you double click on the Deal application, it will open a DOS window, deal 10 deals, then close, which is hardly useful. See the Windows/DOS tutorial for operation instructions.
Mac OS X release of Deal 3.0.8 [240K]. Built on 10.3.2 (Panther.) It might work on previous releases, but I'm not sure.
Changes in Deal 3.0.8
[ No binary changes ]
* Fixed "line" input format
* Updates documentation
Changes in Deal 3.0.7
[ No binary changes - all changes in the Tcl files. ]
* Changed "score" to be a table lookup.
* Fixed a bug in "parscore" which wrong-sided the
contract sometimes.
* Fixed documentation file "commands.html".
Changes in Deal 3.0.6
[ No binary changes this release - all changes in the Tcl files. ]
* Made changes to gib.tcl to work with the latest version of GIB.
* Fixed a few bugs with various formatting procedures.
Changes in Deal 3.0.5
* Fixed a bug - Deal 3.0.4 failed to recognize "-" as void
in -S, -E, -N, -W options, as well as in "north is " commands.
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Changes in Deal 3.0.4
* Update doc examples to match ex/ subdirectory.
* Deleted util.c and util.h from distribution.
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Changes in Deal 3.0.3
* Added GNU General Public License copyright to most files, and full
GPL text to release.
* Altered deal.c to improve performance of reset_deal() routine.
Improved overall performance of 10%.
* Re-implemented in Tcl the broken undocumented old procedures,
intersectclass, negateclass, and joinclass. This lets you create
new shape classes from old shape classes using standard boolean
functions. Old code removed from dist.c, new code added to deal.tcl .
* Deleted some unused code in deal.tcl which was left from early
efforts at the smart stacking routines.
* Updated the documentation
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Changes in Deal 3.0.2
* Fixed a bug in the smartstack methods.
* Altered zip builds to put files in deal302 directory (rather than
deal3.0.2)
* Polished the HTML docs (in docs/html directory.)
* Many, many improved error messages when commands are misused
* Cleaned up some code
* Made dist.c use more Tcl_Obj pointers rather than strings - makes for
faster compiles of shape classes. (I can't believe I left those
sprintf calls for so long. :-)
* Fixed some of the examples which called deal::stack_hand, a non-existant
procedure.
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Changes in Deal 3.0.1
The changes for Deal 3.0.1 (from Deal 3.0 beta 11) were made essentially
for two reasons:
(1) To finish the Deal 3.0 release - e.g., added documentation.
(2) To add features needed for the "smartstack" routines.
* Include HTML docs in docs/html directory.
* Most library files in release moved to the lib directory
* Added "smartstack" input class for fast building of hands which fit
specific patterns
* Added "stacked" procedure to find out the current state of the
deck-stacking. Returns the list of cards stacked to the named hand.
* Altered stacking methods. Added procedures "deck_stack_cards,"
"deck_stack_hand", "stack_cards," and "stack_hand." By default,
"stack_hand" and "stack_cards" just call the "deck_" procedures,
but the idea is that "stack_cards" and "stack_hands" can be
overridden. Now when you call "south is AJ4 KJ54 9643 72" it in
turn calls "stack_hand south AJ4 KJ54 9643 72." Similarly,
"south gets ..." calls "stack_cards," although there the transformation
is somewhat different.
* Added "list" subcommand to shape classes. e.g.,
shapeclass hasVoid { expr {$s*$h*$d*$c==0} }
foreach shape [hasVoid list] {
...
}
* Added "shape" subcommand to the shape classes and functions, e.g.,
shapefunc foo { ... }
foo shape {4 2 4 3}
So:
foo north
Is the same as:
foo shape [north shape]
* Added the "holding" utility procedure, with subcommands length,
disjoint, ...
holding length AKxxx => 5
holding disjoint AKJ4 QT94 => 0 [ false ]
New to Deal 3.0:
* Fast holding procedures definable with holdingProc.
* GIB interfaces (gib::directory, gib::tricks, parscore)
* Bridge utility routines - lho, rho, partner, score
* Input format extensibility
* Uses features of faster versions of Tcl (Tcl 8.x)
On Unix, I'd recommend Tcl 8.3.x (or later,) but on Windows, I'd recommend Tcl 8.0.5, because I've had problems with Tcl hanging with later versions.
All versions of Tcl can be downloaded from the Scriptics web site.
Makefiledeal307.
On Unix machines, you will need to edit the Makefile to point to your installation of Tcl. You may have to change the following variables in the Makefile:
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Thomas Andrews
(deal@thomasoandrews.com)
Copyright 1996-2005. Deal is covered by the
GNU General Public License.
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