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36.Dd June 6, 1993
37.Dt SOELIM 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm soelim
41.Nd eliminate \&.so's from nroff input
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Ar
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48utility
49reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual
50inclusion implied by the
51.Xr nroff 1
52directives of the form:
53.Pp
54.Dl \&.so somefile
55.Pp
56The directives need to appear at the beginning of input lines.
57This is useful since programs such as
58.Xr tbl 1
59do not normally do this; it allows the placement of individual tables
60in separate files to be run as a part of a large document.
61.Pp
62An argument consisting of a single minus
63.Sq Fl
64is taken to be
65a file name corresponding to the standard input.
66.Pp
67Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using
68.Ql \e'
69instead of
70.Ql \e. ,
71i.e.\&
72.Pp
73.Dl \'so /usr/lib/tmac.s
74.Pp
75A sample usage of
76.Nm
77would be
78.Pp
79.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
80soelim exum?.n \&| tbl \&| nroff \-ms \&| col \&| lpr
81.Ed
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr colcrt 1 ,
84.Xr more 1
85.Sh HISTORY
86The
87.Nm
88command appeared in
89.Bx 3.0 .
90.Sh BUGS
91The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness \-
92exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name.
93