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diff --git a/whichbas.rst b/whichbas.rst index 3eb8854..14ec718 100644 --- a/whichbas.rst +++ b/whichbas.rst @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ DESCRIPTION BASIC XL, BASIC XE, or Atari Microsoft BASIC program and attempts to discover which BASIC is required to run it. +*input-file* must be an actual file. **whichbas** can't read from +standard input, because it seeks in the input file. + OPTIONS ======= @@ -37,6 +40,9 @@ NOTES Turbo BASIC, BASIC XL, and BASIC XE are all supersets of Atari BASIC. If you wrote a program using one of them, but didn't use any of the extra commands or functions, the result is still an Atari BASIC program. +Likewise, if you wrote a program using BASIC XE, but only used the +commands/functions it has in common with BASIC XL, it would be +detected as BASIC XL. There are two types of BASIC XE programs: regular and *EXTEND*\ed. The extended type is detected 100% reliably, because the first byte of the |