This is the documentation for the tex2asc program.

This is *not* a general purpose TeX-to-ASCII conversion program.  It is
specifically designed to convert specific files---namely, classical
Latin texts and their associated commentaries---from TeX format into
ASCII.  It does that well, but will not really do anything else.

If you plan to run tex2asc on a Unix machine, you will want to get the
source code (tex2asc.c), and compile that:

example% cc tex2asc.c -o tex2asc

If you are going to run it on an 80x86/MS-DOS or VAX/VMS, take the
associated binary (vms_tex2asc.exe or dos_tex2asc.exe), and if that
doesn't work, you'll have to get your local guru to help you out.

tex2asc is used as a filter, that is, it reads from the stanrard input
and writes on the standard output.  If you (as you probably do) want to
make a .txt (ascii) file from a .tex (TeX) file, you will have to
redirect the input and output:

under Unix and DOS,

example% tex2asc < file.tex > file.txt

under VMS,

$ run tex2asc /input=file.tex /output=file.txt


Have fun!