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 following form

.so somefile

when they appear at the beginning of input lines.  This procedure is useful, as programs such as tbl do not normally perform this function: it allows the placement of individual tables in separate files to be run as a part of a large document. 

Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using ‘´’ instead of ‘.’, for example:

´so /usr/lib/tmac.s

A sample usage of soelim would be the following:

soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff −ms | col | lpr

SEE ALSO

colcrt(1), more(1)

AUTHOR

William Joy

BUGS

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

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