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32.\"     @(#)soelim.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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34.Dd June 6, 1993
35.Dt SOELIM 1
36.Os BSD 3
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm soelim
39.Nd eliminate \&.so's from nroff input
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm soelim
42.Op Ar file ...
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44.Nm Soelim
45reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual
46inclusion implied by the
47.Xr nroff 1
48directives of the form:
49.Pp
50.Dl \&.so somefile
51.Pp
52The directives need to appear at the beginning of input lines.
53This is useful since programs such as
54.Xr tbl 1
55do not normally do this; it allows the placement of individual tables
56in separate files to be run as a part of a large document.
57.Pp
58An argument consisting of a single minus
59.Ql Fl
60is taken to be
61a file name corresponding to the standard input.
62.Pp
63Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using
64.Ql \e'
65instead of
66.Ql \e. ,
67i.e.
68.Pp
69.Dl \'so /usr/lib/tmac.s
70.Pp
71A sample usage of
72.Nm soelim
73would be
74.Pp
75.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
76soelim exum?.n \&| tbl \&| nroff \-ms \&| col \&| lpr
77.Ed
78.Sh SEE ALSO
79.Xr colcrt 1 ,
80.Xr more 1
81.Sh BUGS
82The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness \-
83exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name.
84.Sh HISTORY
85The
86.Nm
87command appeared in
88.Bx 3.0 .
89