SOELIM(1) BSD 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 ALSOcolcrt(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.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD