Hi,
had you changed the extension from .$as to .SAS (after copying it to another location so as not damage the original file) you could have opened normally as any other sas program (because you said that you had to use a text editor).
Learn the difference between classical and Bayesian statistical approaches and see a few PROC examples to perform Bayesian analysis in this video.
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