.TH BEEF 1 "February 01, 2007" "0.0.6" "User Commands"

.SH NAME
beef \- flexible Brainfuck interpreter

.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBbeef\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fIFILE\fR

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBbeef\fR is a Brainfuck interpreter written in C. It is written with
flexibility and portability in mind: it is not the smallest nor the fastest
Brainfuck interpreter on Earth, but it has some options to control his
behavior and doesn't suffer most of the limitations which are usually present
in Brainfuck interpreters.
.PP
One of the best features of \fBbeef\fR is that it has no limitations on the
length of the tape, which is created dinamically, and allows you to move in any
direction, even to move an unlimited amount of cells left when you are on the
starting cell.
.PP
\fBbeef\fR also allows you to control his behavior in case it reads and EOF
from the input stream: see below for a list of available options.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-d\fR
Enable debugging. The debugging command \fB#\fR is not part of the
Brainfuck language, but it's an useful feature for the programmer, so most
interpreters implement it. Debugging is off by default.
.TP
\fB\-e\fR
When read an EOF from input, store an EOF in the current cell. This is for
compatibility with programs written for other interpreters; the default
behavior is to store a 0 in the current cell when an EOF is read.
.TP
\fB\-n\fR
When read an EOF from input, do nothing. This is the default behavior in some
other interpreters, so it's supported in \fBbeef\fR for compatibility reasons.
The default behavior is to store a 0 on the current cell instead.
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
Show the version number and exit successfully.
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
Show a short help message and exit with success.

.SH EXIT STATUS
\fBbeef\fR returns an exit staus of zero on success, or an exit status of \-1
if it was unable to perform the requested operation.
.PP
Please note that no checks are performed on the code: if the code you are
trying to run is buggy, \fBbeef\fR will run it anyway and the result will
probably differ from what you expected.

.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by KiyuKo <eof AT kiyuko DOT org>