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 direc-
          tives 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 filename corresponding to the standard input.

          Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using ' instead of
          ., for example

             'so /usr/lib/tmac.s

          A sample usage of soelim would be:

             soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff -mm | col | lp


     FILES
          /usr/ucb/soelim

     SEE ALSO
          col(1), eqn(1), nroff(1), tbl(1), troff(1),

     BUGS
          The format of the source commands must be consistent; exact-
          ly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file
          name.














     April, 1990                                                     1