#! /bin/sh

#================================================================
# extfxmantotxt
# Convert man (troff-andoc) into plain text.
#================================================================


# set variables
PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin:." ; export PATH
MANWIDTH=262144 ; export MANWIDTH
progname="estfxmantotxt"


# check arguments
if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
  printf '%s: usage: %s infile [outfile]\n' "$progname" "$progname" 1>&2
  exit 1
fi
infile="$1"
outfile="$2"
if [ -n "$ESTORIGFILE" ] && [ -f "$ESTORIGFILE" ]
then
  infile="$ESTORIGFILE"
fi


# check the input
if [ "!" -f "$infile" ]
then
  printf '%s: %s: no such file\n' "$progname" "$infile" 1>&2
  exit 1
fi


# initialize the output file
if [ -n "$outfile" ]
then
  rm -f "$outfile"
fi


# function to output
output(){
  if [ -n "$outfile" ]
  then
    cat >> "$outfile"
  else
    cat
  fi
}


# limit the resource
ulimit -v 262144 -t 10 2> "/dev/null"


# output the result
man "$infile" 2> "/dev/null" | col -b | tr '\t' ' ' | output


# exit normally
exit 0



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