4.3BSD - /usr/man/cat1/soelim.0

SOELIM(1)                                                            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 directives of the form

            .so somefile

       when they appear at the beginning of input lines.  This is useful since
       programs  such  as tbl 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.


3rd Berkeley Distribution         May 7, 1986                        SOELIM(1)