It's included as part of this message, and your comments are more than
welcome. I'll also put it in the files section. If it's OK with everyone,
I'd like to make the files section have a public read access.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 History
1.3 Terminology
card, suit, card number,
state (= board), stack, freecell,
foundation (sometimes erroneously referred to in the code as
deck).
deck (=a pack of 4 suits of 13 cards each).
move (= supermove), atomic move, move stack
multimove
canonizing states, normalizing states
2 The card.c module
2.1 Converting cards to and from strings
3 The state.h header
3.1 How states are represented in FCS
3.1.1 Debug States
3.1.2 Compact States
3.1.3 Indirect Stack States
3.2 The macros used to manage the states.
4 The state.c module
4.1 fcs_card_compare
4.2 fcs_duplicate_state (mainly in Indirect Stack States)
4.3 fcs_stack_compare
4.4 The difference between fcs_stack_compare_for_comparison
and fcs_stack_compare_for_stack_sort
4.4 fcs_canonize_state
4.5 fcs_state_compare - why we can use memcmp
4.6 fcs_initial_user_state_to_c
4.7 fcs_check_state_validity
4.8 fcs_state_as_string
5 move.c
5.1 How moves are represnted and handled.
5.2 Move stacks and their operations
5.3 fcs_move_stack_normalize
6 How the different scans are handled. (scans.c and caas.c)
6.1 Theoretical description of the scans.
6.1.1 What is DFS
6.1.2 What is BFS
6.1.3 What is A*
6.2 The check_and_add_state function.
6.3 The DFS scan
6.4 The BFS scan
6.5 The A* scan
7 Overview of the tests (the freecell.c file)
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8 The Interface functions (intrface.c)
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9 Utility modules
9.1 fcs_isa.c
9.2 fcs_hash.c
9.3 md5c.c
9.4 pqueue.c
9.5 fcs_dm.c
9.6 preset.c
10 Overview of the fcs_user interface functions
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