June 6, 1993 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.

```īso``/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.