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Name
fig2vect - Yet another Fig to vector converter

Synopsis
fig2vect options inputfile outputfile

fig2vect options directory

Options
-v
shows version information.
-h
shows a help text.
-c options
configures the options as permanent options.
-u
removes the permanent options (unconfigure).
-r options
skips all permanent options (resets configuration to build-in defaults) before processing the command line options.
-C
shows the permanent options.
-l language
chooses a language configuration from the configuration file.
-o key=value
overrides a configuration setting.
-m
activates ''make'' behaviour when the program is run on a directory.
-m-
deactivates ''make'' behaviour when the program is run on a directory.

Return Value
The program returns exit code 0 on success or a positive exit code on errors.

Errors And Diagnostics
Error messages an diagnostics are written to log file, standard output and standard error output depending on the preferences configured for the fig2vect application. The command line option

--/log/stderr/level=debug
can be used for extended diagnostic messages to the standard error stream.
Examples
fig2vect -lmp input.fig output.mp
converts input.fig to output.mp
fig2vect -lsvg input.fig.bz2 output.svg.gz
converts the bzip2-compressed input file input.fig.bz2 to the gzip-compressed output file output.svg.gz
fig2vect -lmp -m- .
converts all .fig files in the current directory into corresponding .mp files, no modification time check is applied.
fig2vect -lmp -m .
converts all .fig files in the current directory into corresponding .mp files, a conversion is run only for those file pairs where the .fig file is newer than the .mp file.