SOELIM(1)

NAME
soelim - eliminate .so's from nroff input

SYNOPSIS
soelim [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
Soelim reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual inclusion implied by the nroff(1) directives of the form:

    .so somefile

The directives need to appear at the beginning of input lines. This is useful since programs such as tbl(1) do not normally do this; it allows the placement of individual tables in separate files to be run as a part of a large document.

An argument consisting of a single minus ‘-’ is taken to be a file name corresponding to the standard input.

Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using ‘\'’ instead of ‘\.’, i.e.

    'so /usr/lib/tmac.s

A sample usage of soelim would be

    soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff -ms | col | lpr

SEE ALSO
colcrt(1), more(1)

BUGS
The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness - exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name.

HISTORY
The soelim command appeared in 3.0BSD.