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SOELIM(1)           UNIX Programmer's Manual            SOELIM(1)


N\bNA\bAM\bME\bE
     soelim - eliminate .so's from nroff input

S\bSY\bYN\bNO\bOP\bPS\bSI\bIS\bS
     s\bso\boe\bel\bli\bim\bm [ file ...      ]

D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
     _\bS_\bo_\be_\bl_\bi_\bm reads the specified files or the standard input and
     performs the textual inclusion implied by the _\bn_\br_\bo_\bf_\bf direc-
     tives of the form

          .so somefile

     when they appear at the beginning of input lines.  This is
     useful since programs such as _\bt_\bb_\bl do not 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 minus (-\b-) is taken to be
     a file name corresponding to the standard input.

     Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using `'' instead
     of `.', i.e.

          'so /usr/lib/tmac.s

     A sample usage of _\bs_\bo_\be_\bl_\bi_\bm would be

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

S\bSE\bEE\bE A\bAL\bLS\bSO\bO
     colcrt(1), more(1)

B\bBU\bUG\bGS\bS
     The format of the source commands must involve no strange-
     ness - exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow
     the file name.


Printed 7/9/88             May 7, 1986                          1