From 2da7ac8b7bd573d5cb24e83f4f308837630e9e78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "B. Watson" <urchlay@slackware.uk>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 07:30:05 -0500
Subject: listamsb: add -c (check only) option.

---
 listamsb.1 | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'listamsb.1')

diff --git a/listamsb.1 b/listamsb.1
index 96e7dcb..37ece05 100644
--- a/listamsb.1
+++ b/listamsb.1
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ Output raw ATASCII. This option must be used with a pipe or redirection, as
 \fBlistamsb\fP will not write ATASCII to a terminal. \fBa8cat\fP is not used,
 with this option.
 .TP
+.B \fB\-c\fP
+Check only. No output on stdout. Diagnostics are still printed on stderr,
+and the exit status is unchanged.
+.TP
 .B \fB\-v\fP
 Verbose output, on stderr.
 .TP
@@ -67,8 +71,16 @@ Print built\-in help and exit.
 .TP
 .B \fB\-i\fP, \fB\-u\fP, \fB\-t\fP, \fB\-m\fP, \fB\-s\fP
 These options are passed to \fBa8cat\fP\&. See its man page for details. If
-the \fB\-a\fP option is used, these options have no effect.
+the \fB\-a\fP or \fB\-c\fP option is used, these options have no effect.
 .UNINDENT
+.SH DIAGNOSTICS
+.SH LIMITATIONS
+.sp
+Unlike \fBlistbas\fP, there\(aqs no color syntax highlighting. Probably there
+never will be.
+.sp
+It\(aqs hard to reliably detect AMSB files. If you feed \fBlistamsb\fP an
+Atari BASIC file, you\(aqll get gibberish output.
 .SH EXIT STATUS
 .sp
 0 for success, 1 if there was an error reading the input (e.g. file
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