1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)soelim.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 04/22/91 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt SOELIM 1 10.Os BSD 3 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm soelim 13.Nd eliminate \&.so's from nroff input 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm soelim 16.Op Ar file ... 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18.Nm Soelim 19reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual 20inclusion implied by the 21.Xr nroff 1 22directives of the form: 23.Pp 24.Dl \&.so somefile 25.Pp 26The directives need to appear at the beginning of input lines. 27This is useful since programs such as 28.Xr tbl 1 29do not normally do this; it allows the placement of individual tables 30in separate files to be run as a part of a large document. 31.Pp 32An argument consisting of a single minus 33.Ql Fl 34is taken to be 35a file name corresponding to the standard input. 36.Pp 37Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using 38.Ql \e' 39instead of 40.Ql \e. , 41i.e. 42.Pp 43.Dl \'so /usr/lib/tmac.s 44.Pp 45A sample usage of 46.Nm soelim 47would be 48.Pp 49.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 50soelim exum?.n \&| tbl \&| nroff \-ms \&| col \&| lpr 51.Ed 52.Sh SEE ALSO 53.Xr colcrt 1 , 54.Xr more 1 55.Sh BUGS 56The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness \- 57exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name. 58.Sh HISTORY 59The 60.Nm 61command appeared in 62.Bx 3.0 . 63