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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File } {[@var{c}, @var{tsam}, @var{input}, @var{output}] =} sys2fir (@var{sys})
## 
## Extract FIR data from system data structure; see @ref{fir2sys} for
## parameter descriptions.
## 
## @end deftypefn

## See also: fir2sys
 
function [c, tsam, inname, outname] = sys2fir (sys)

  ## a s hodel July 1996

  ## let sys2tf do most of the work

  [num,den,tsam,inname,outname] = sys2tf(sys);

  alph = den(1);			# scale to get monic denominator
  den = den/alph;
  num = num/alph;
  l = length(den);
  m = length(num);
  if( norm(den(2:l)) )
    sysout(sys,"tf");
    error("denominator has poles away from origin");
  elseif( !is_digital(sys) )
    error("system must be discrete-time to be FIR");
  elseif(m != l)
    warning(["sys2fir: deg(num) - deg(den) = ",num2str(m-l), ...
	"; coefficients must be shifted"]);
  endif
  c = num;
endfunction