1.\" $NetBSD: soelim.1,v 1.3 1994/12/21 08:11:24 jtc 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 BSD 3 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm soelim 41.Nd eliminate \&.so's from nroff input 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm soelim 44.Op Ar file ... 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46.Nm Soelim 47reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual 48inclusion implied by the 49.Xr nroff 1 50directives of the form: 51.Pp 52.Dl \&.so somefile 53.Pp 54The directives need to appear at the beginning of input lines. 55This is useful since programs such as 56.Xr tbl 1 57do not normally do this; it allows the placement of individual tables 58in separate files to be run as a part of a large document. 59.Pp 60An argument consisting of a single minus 61.Ql Fl 62is taken to be 63a file name corresponding to the standard input. 64.Pp 65Note that inclusion can be suppressed by using 66.Ql \e' 67instead of 68.Ql \e. , 69i.e. 70.Pp 71.Dl \'so /usr/lib/tmac.s 72.Pp 73A sample usage of 74.Nm soelim 75would be 76.Pp 77.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 78soelim exum?.n \&| tbl \&| nroff \-ms \&| col \&| lpr 79.Ed 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr colcrt 1 , 82.Xr more 1 83.Sh BUGS 84The format of the source commands must involve no strangeness \- 85exactly one blank must precede and no blanks follow the file name. 86.Sh HISTORY 87The 88.Nm 89command appeared in 90.Bx 3.0 . 91