zsoelim(1)

NAME

   zsoelim - satisfy .so requests in roff input

SYNOPSIS

   zsoelim [-CVh] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

   zsoelim  parses  file arguments, or if none are specified, its standard
   input for lines of the form:

   .so <filename>

   These requests are replaced by the contents of the filename  specified.
   If the request cannot be met, zsoelim looks for filename.ext where .ext
   can be one of .gz, .Z or .z.  Other extension types  may  be  supported
   depending  upon  compile  time options.  If the request can be met by a
   compressed  file,  this  file  is  decompressed  using  an  appropriate
   decompressor and its output is used to satisfy the request.

   Traditionally, soelim programs were used to allow roff preprocessors to
   be able to preprocess the files referred  to  by  the  requests.   This
   particular  version  was  written  to  circumvent  problems  created by
   support for compressed manual pages.

OPTIONS

   -C, --compatible
          This flag is  available  for  compatibility  with  other  soelim
          programs.   Its  use  is  to  enable  .so  requests  followed by
          something other than whitespace.  As this is already the default
          behaviour, it is ignored.

   -h, --help
          Print a help message and exit.

   -V, --version
          Display version information.

SEE ALSO

   groff(1), man(1), nroff(1), troff(1)

AUTHOR

   Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk).
   Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org).
   Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).

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