SOELIM(1)                            BSD                             SOELIM(1)



NAME
     soelim - eliminate .so's from nroff input

SYNOPSIS
     soelim [ file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
     soelim reads the specified files or the standard input, and performs the
     textual inclusion implied by the nroff directives of the form

          .so somefile

     when they appear at the beginning of input lines.  This is useful since
     programs such as tbl don't normally do this; it allows the placement of
     individual tables in separate files to be run as a part of a large
     document.

     An argument consisting of a single dash (-) is taken to be a filename
     corresponding to the standard input.

     Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using a backquote (') instead of
     a period (.), as shown in the following example:

          'so /usr/lib/tmac.s

EXAMPLE
     A sample usage of soelim is:

          soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff -ms | col | lpr

BUGS
     The format of the source commands must be standard.  Exactly one blank
     must precede and no blanks follow the filename.

SEE ALSO
     colcrt(1), more(1)