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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.rst | |
| parent | 67b67eebb77512ffac50e8650cfc9f30913869fd (diff) | |
| download | bw-atari8-tools-6ecf69df08f7a4d45a9cf3a0dc11c539bec1167e.tar.gz | |
whichbas: update man page.
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diff --git a/whichbas.rst b/whichbas.rst index 17e992e..10669e7 100644 --- a/whichbas.rst +++ b/whichbas.rst @@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ whichbas [-v] *input-file* [*input-file* ...] DESCRIPTION =========== -**whichbas** 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. + +**whichbas** 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. *input-file*\s must be actual files. **whichbas** can't read from standard input, because it seeks in the input file. @@ -98,8 +100,11 @@ thoroughly tested. OSS Integer BASIC is a product that was developed by OSS, but never released until recently. It's similar to BASIC XL and XE, but uses 16-bit integers for all numeric operations, rather than 6-byte BCD -floating point. Integer BASIC's SAVEd programs are recognized by -the first two bytes, which are always **$77** **$00**. +floating point. Integer BASIC's SAVEd programs are recognized by the +first two bytes, which are always **$77** **$00**. There are two known +versions of Integer BASIC (disk and cartridge), which use different +command tokens; **whichbas** detects which version by looking at the +token SAVE or CSAVE command at the end of the file. Various non-BASIC files are detected (including Mac/65 source, ELF binaries, etc) as a convenience, but I wouldn't rely on @@ -194,7 +199,10 @@ With the **-s** option, the exit status is: OSS BASIC/A+ detected. **15** - OSS Integer BASIC detected. + OSS Integer BASIC (cartridge version) detected. + +**16** + OSS Integer BASIC (disk version) detected. **64** None of the above; not BASIC. |