---
name: "pescetti"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "pescetti"
version: "0.5-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pescetti"
---

# pescetti(1)

Pseudo-Duplimate Generator

## NAME

pescetti — Pseudo-Duplimate Generator

## SYNOPSIS

**pescetti**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **pescetti** command.

## OPTIONS

Here are a list of the available options and what they do. You must specify exactly one from  --demo, --generate or --load.

- \--help

  Prints the help text

- \--demo

  Demonstration mode. Generates one hand with permutations and the tutorial for how to use them.

- \--generate=N

  Generate N random boards

- \--load=boards.txt

  Load boards+analysis from boards.txt

- \--load-dds=boards.dds

  Load boards from boards.dds in dds format

- \--load-analysis=tricks.txt

  Load analysis from tricks.txt

- \--permutations=permutations.txt

  Generate the permutations and save them to the given file

- \--curtains=curtains.txt

  Save curtain cards to file curtains.txt

- \--save=boards.txt

  Save the boards+analysis to boards.txt

- \--save-dds=boards.dds

  Save the boards to boards.dds in dds format

- \--save-analysis=tricks.txt

  Save the analysis to tricks.txt

- \--format=html\|txt\|pdf

  Set the output mode to the given format

- \--title=title

  Set the title for the output

- \--output=hands.txt

  Print the hands to hands.txt, rather than to standard output

- \--stats

  Generate statistics about the set of boards; included in the hands output

- \--analyze

  Run the dds analyzer on the boards and print the resulting numberof tricks (warning SLOW)

- \--criteria=''criteria...''

  A list of criteria to apply to each generated hand to generate specific hand types.  The list should be space separated and each item may be suffixed with a colon and a (fractional)  probability value which can be used to weight the criteria.

-

  E.g. --criteria="weaknt:0.8 strongnt:0.5"

-

  Valid criteria are: unbalanced weaknt strongnt twont strongtwo weaktwo three twoclubs 4441 singlesuit twosuits partscore game slam game-invite slam-invite jumpshift jumpfit splinter bacon weird

- \--probability=factor

  Generate hands matching the criteria with only the given  probability. Factor is in the range 0 to 1. On each attempt to  generate a board it is rejected if it doesn't match the criteria with  the given probability.  A factor of about 0.8 gives roughly half  matching boards

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matthew Johnson \<debian@matthew.ath.cx\>. Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 as  published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.