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ZSOELIM(1)                               Manual pager utils                               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 exten‐
       sion 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 AT ee.uk).
       Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco AT debian.org).
       Colin Watson (cjwatson AT debian.org).

BUGS
       https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/man-db/-/issues
       https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db



2.10.2                                       2022-03-17                                   ZSOELIM(1)