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25.Dd November 7, 2015
26.Dt SOELIM 1
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm soelim
30.Nd interpret .so requests in manpages
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.Nm
33.Op Fl Crtv
34.Op Fl I Ar dir
35.Op Ar
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39utility
40reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual
41inclusion implied by the
42.Xr nroff 1 Pq Pa ports/textproc/groff
43directives of the form:
44.Pp
45.Dl \&.so anotherfile
46.Pp
47If a line starts with:
48.Dq .so anotherfile
49it replaces the line by processing
50.Dq anotherfile .
51Otherwise the line is printed to stdout.
52.Bl -tag -width "-I dir"
53.It Fl C
54Recognise
55.Em .so
56when it is not followed by a space character.
57.It Fl r
58Compatibility with groff's
59.Xr soelim 1
60(does nothing).
61.It Fl t
62Compatibility with groff's
63.Xr soelim 1
64(does nothing).
65.It Fl v
66Compatibility with groff's
67.Xr soelim 1
68(does nothing).
69.It Fl I Ar dir
70This option specifies directories where
71.Nm
72searches for files (both those on the command line and those named in
73.Dq .so
74directive.)
75This option may be specified multiple times.
76The directories will be searched in the order specified.
77.El
78.Pp
79The files are always searched first in the current directory.
80.Pp
81A file specified with an absolute path will be opened directly without
82performing a search.
83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr mandoc 1
85.Sh AUTHORS
86This version of the
87.Nm
88utility was written by
89.An Baptiste Daroussin Aq Mt bapt@freebsd.org .
90