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	compile  time options.	If the request can be met by a
       compressed file, this file is decompressed using an appropriate	decom
       pressor 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 par
       ticular	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  pro
	      grams.   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
       nroff(1), troff(1), groff(1), man(1).

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



2.4.3				  2005-07-03			    ZSOELIM(1)