Manual: zsoelim

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 

       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	com‐
       pile  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 fol‐
	      lowed 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).

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

2.13.1							 2025-05-02						  ZSOELIM(1)