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| author | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-03-26 03:06:02 -0400 |
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| committer | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2025-03-26 03:06:02 -0400 |
| commit | 6ecf69df08f7a4d45a9cf3a0dc11c539bec1167e (patch) | |
| tree | d3b9846d8f919b567fc6aaa3651f00bc6ed1462e /whichbas.1 | |
| parent | 67b67eebb77512ffac50e8650cfc9f30913869fd (diff) | |
| download | bw-atari8-tools-6ecf69df08f7a4d45a9cf3a0dc11c539bec1167e.tar.gz | |
whichbas: update 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 "WHICHBAS" 1 "2025-03-24" "0.2.2" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools" +.TH "WHICHBAS" 1 "2025-03-26" "0.2.2" "Urchlay's Atari 8-bit Tools" .SH NAME whichbas \- Determine BASIC variant of a tokenized Atari 8-bit program .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -35,9 +35,10 @@ whichbas \- Determine BASIC variant of a tokenized Atari 8-bit program whichbas [\-v] \fIinput\-file\fP [\fIinput\-file\fP ...] .SH DESCRIPTION .sp -\fBwhichbas\fP reads tokenized Atari 8\-bit BASIC, Turbo BASIC, -BASIC XL, BASIC XE, BASIC/A+, or Atari Microsoft BASIC programs and attempts to -discover which BASIC is required to run each one. +\fBwhichbas\fP reads tokenized Atari 8\-bit BASIC, Turbo BASIC, BASIC +XL, BASIC XE, BASIC/A+, OSS Integer BASIC, or Atari Microsoft BASIC +programs and attempts to discover which BASIC is required to run each +one. .sp \fIinput\-file\fPs must be actual files. \fBwhichbas\fP can\(aqt read from standard input, because it seeks in the input file. @@ -133,8 +134,11 @@ thoroughly tested. OSS Integer BASIC is a product that was developed by OSS, but never released until recently. It\(aqs similar to BASIC XL and XE, but uses 16\-bit integers for all numeric operations, rather than 6\-byte BCD -floating point. Integer BASIC\(aqs SAVEd programs are recognized by -the first two bytes, which are always \fB$77\fP \fB$00\fP\&. +floating point. Integer BASIC\(aqs SAVEd programs are recognized by the +first two bytes, which are always \fB$77\fP \fB$00\fP\&. There are two known +versions of Integer BASIC (disk and cartridge), which use different +command tokens; \fBwhichbas\fP detects which version by looking at the +token SAVE or CSAVE command at the end of the file. .sp Various non\-BASIC files are detected (including Mac/65 source, ELF binaries, etc) as a convenience, but I wouldn\(aqt rely on @@ -232,7 +236,10 @@ Compiled Turbo BASIC detected. OSS BASIC/A+ detected. .TP .B \fB15\fP -OSS Integer BASIC detected. +OSS Integer BASIC (cartridge version) detected. +.TP +.B \fB16\fP +OSS Integer BASIC (disk version) detected. .TP .B \fB64\fP None of the above; not BASIC. |