SOELIM(1) | General Commands Manual | SOELIM(1)

# NAME

soelim — eliminate .so's from nroff input

# SYNOPSIS

soelim | [-I directory] [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

The options are as follows:

-I
  Add the specified directory to the search path for input files.

# SEE ALSO

colcrt(1), more(1)

# HISTORY

The soelim command appeared in 3.0BSD.

# BUGS

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

June 6, 1993 | NetBSD 6.0