HOOLA(6)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for transpose-freecell-board.py, and the manual name is HOOLA(6) — folding that in right here like a little name tag. 🎀 Its whole gig: transpose a Freecell/etc. layout from play-stacks in text-columns to play-stacks in text lines. literally that’s the assignment. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

Run it like this, no cap:

transpose-freecell-board.py -o output_fn input_fn | -

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This program transposes a Freecell/etc. layout. iconic. 💜

Sample input:

           4C 5H QC 5D 2D 7H AH 7S
           2H QH 9S 2S KD JS 5S 6C
           9C 3C 6H JC TH KH 6S 7D
           8C AC 9H 5C TC TS AD 4D
           QS 3H 3S JH TD    8H 8S
              4H KS 6D 8D    JD
              QD 3D AS       KC
                 2C          9D
                 4S
                 7C

Sample output:

           : 4C 2H 9C 8C QS
           : 5H QH 3C AC 3H 4H QD
           : QC 9S 6H 9H 3S KS 3D 2C 4S 7C
           : 5D 2S JC 5C JH 6D AS
           : 2D KD TH TC TD 8D
           : 7H JS KH TS
           : AH 5S 6S AD 8H JD KC 9D
           : 7S 6C 7D 4D 8S

The columns are prefixed with a single optional Foundations: line followed by a single optional Freecells: line in fc-solve format. that’s the little formatting garnish, bestie. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -o — Specify an output filename. that’s the one option, and it’s literally just telling the program where to put the output. 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• fc-solve (6) — go peek at this one too, bestie.
• /usr/share/doc/freecell-solver-FCS_VERSION/board_gen/README — the exact path from the page, right here, untouched. 🦋

💖 AUTHOR 💖

Shlomi Fish, <http://www.shlomifish.org/> . author moment! 🌈

Thanks to Manish Jain for inspiring this program. we love an inspiration credit. 🫶

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okay bestie, that’s the whole HOOLA(6) page — from Freecell Solver 6.16.0, dated 2026-01-10, and you can close the tab now. 💖✨