GZSOELIM(1)                   Manual pager utils                   GZSOELIM(1)

NAME
       gzsoelim - satisfy .so requests in roff input

SYNOPSIS
       gzsoelim [-CVh] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
       gzsoelim 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, gzsoelim 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), gman(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

2.13.0                            2024-08-29                       GZSOELIM(1)