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DESCRIPTION
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-**bas2aplus** reads an Atari BASIC or BASIC XL/XE tokenized (SAVEd) program
-and converts it to BASIC/A+.
+**bas2aplus** reads an Atari BASIC or BASIC XL/XE tokenized (SAVEd)
+program and converts it to BASIC/A+. The conversion is a simple token
+replacement; no syntax or semantic analysis is done.
+
+*input-file* must be an Atari BASIC, BASIC XL, or BASIC XE program.
+Turbo BASIC is not supported. Trying to convert a program that is
+already BASIC/A+ will appear to succeed, but the resulting program
+will be gibberish and will likely crash BASIC/A+ when **RUN**.
All Atari BASIC programs can be successfully converted. Some BASIC
XL/XE tokens have no equivalent in BASIC/A+, so programs using these
can't be converted (you will see messages on standard error, in that
case).
-Turbo BASIC is not supported.
-
-Trying to convert a program that is already BASIC/A+ will appear to
-succeed, but the resulting program will be gibberish and will likely
-crash BASIC/A+ when **RUN**.
-
OPTIONS
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