soelim(1)							   User Commands							 soelim(1)

NAME

       soelim - resolve and eliminate .so requests from nroff or troff input

SYNOPSIS

       soelim [filename...]

DESCRIPTION

       soelim reads the specified files or the standard input and performs the textual inclusion implied by the nroff(1) directives of the form

	      .so somefile

       when  they  appear  at  the  beginning  of input lines. This is useful since programs such as tbl(1) 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 `-' is taken to be a file name corresponding to the standard input.

       Note:  Inclusion can be suppressed by using `'' instead of `.', that is,

	      ' so /usr/share/lib/tmac/tmac.s

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: A sample of the soelim command.

       A sample usage of soelim would be

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

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWdoc			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       more(1), nroff(1), tbl(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    14 Sep 1992 							 soelim(1)