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authorB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2025-03-12 14:33:20 -0400
committerB. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>2025-03-12 14:33:20 -0400
commitb4c06dd0ced93c1c49076375becccfe5eec860cb (patch)
tree69178a93f71cdc207f368f6aff515a60f49dc9ed /listamsb.1
parent2703b4f3d32941d3aff315d4698bbc279a1ff5a5 (diff)
downloadbw-atari8-tools-b4c06dd0ced93c1c49076375becccfe5eec860cb.tar.gz
listamsb: warn about overwriting files in man page.
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]
.\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]
.in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u
..
-.TH "LISTAMSB" 1 "2025-03-11" "0.2.2" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools"
+.TH "LISTAMSB" 1 "2025-03-12" "0.2.2" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools"
.SH NAME
listamsb \- List the source of a tokenized Atari Microsoft BASIC program
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ program to an unencrypted one, with the \fB\-U\fP option.
Programs can be "crunched" and "decrunched" with the \fB\-C\fP and \fB\-D\fP
options.
.sp
-If no \fBoutput\-file\fP is given, output is to \fBstdout\fP\&.
+If no \fBoutput\-file\fP is given, output is to \fBstdout\fP\&. When output
+is to a file, the file will be overwritten without prompting if it
+already exists.
.sp
When listing a program to \fBstdout\fP, output is piped through
\fBa8cat\fP(1), which converts the ATASCII output to UTF\-8 that\(aqs
@@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ available in your \fBPATH\fP\&. If this is not convenient, you can set
the location of \fBa8cat\fP via the \fBA8CAT\fP environment variable.
.sp
\fBlistamsb\fP will not write binary data (ATASCII or tokenized BASIC)
-directly to a terminal.
+directly to a terminal, under any circumstances.
.SH OPTIONS
.SS Operation Modes
.INDENT 0.0