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1.TH SOELIM 1 2/24/79
2.UC
3.SH NAME
4soelim \- eliminate \&.so's from nroff input
5.SH SYNOPSIS
6.B soelim
7[
8file ...
9]
10.SH DESCRIPTION
11.I Soelim
12reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual
13inclusion implied by the
14.I nroff
15directives of the form
16.PP
17.DT
18 \&.so somefile
19.PP
20when they appear at the beginning of input lines.
21This is useful since programs such as
22.I tbl
23do not normally do this;
24it allows the placement of individual tables
25in separate files to be run as a part of a large document.
26.PP
27Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using
28`\'' instead of `\.', i.e.
29.PP
30.DT
31 \'so /usr/lib/tmac.s
32.PP
33A sample usage of
34.I soelim
35would be
36.PP
37 soelim exum?.n | tbl | nroff \-ms | col | lpr
38.SH SEE\ ALSO
39colcrt(1), more(1)
40.SH AUTHOR
41William Joy
42.SH BUGS
43The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness \-
44exactly one
45blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name.