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).

BUGS

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