1.\" $NetBSD: soelim.1,v 1.7 2001/12/08 19:15:45 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)soelim.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 35.\" 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 Fl I Ar directory 45.Op Ar file ... 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47.Nm 48reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual 49inclusion implied by the 50.Xr nroff 1 51directives of the form: 52.Pp 53.Dl \&.so somefile 54.Pp 55The directives need to appear at the beginning of input lines. 56This is useful since programs such as 57.Xr tbl 1 58do not normally do this; it allows the placement of individual tables 59in separate files to be run as a part of a large document. 60.Pp 61An argument consisting of a single minus 62.Ql Fl 63is taken to be 64a file name corresponding to the standard input. 65.Pp 66Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using 67.Ql \e' 68instead of 69.Ql \e. , 70i.e. 71.Pp 72.Dl \'so /usr/lib/tmac.s 73.Pp 74A sample usage of 75.Nm 76would be 77.Pp 78.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 79soelim exum?.n \&| tbl \&| nroff \-ms \&| col \&| lpr 80.Ed 81.Pp 82The options are as follows: 83.Bl -tag -width indent 84.It Fl I 85Add the specified directory to the search path for input files. 86.El 87.Sh SEE ALSO 88.Xr colcrt 1 , 89.Xr more 1 90.Sh HISTORY 91The 92.Nm 93command appeared in 94.Bx 3.0 . 95.Sh BUGS 96The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness \- 97exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name. 98