Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit
“Execution procedure for Abaqus: overview,” Section 3.1.1
The abaqus free utility will convert the fixed format input files used with Abaqus 5.8 to the free format input files used with subsequent Abaqus releases.
job
This option is used to specify the name of the free format input file to be output by the utility.
input
This option is used to specify the name of the fixed format input file to be converted.