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diff --git a/man/man1/zsoelim.man1 b/man/man1/zsoelim.man1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..599e46e --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/zsoelim.man1 @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +.\" Man page for %zsoelim% +.\" +.\" Copyright (C), 1994, 1995, Graeme W. Wilford. (Wilf.) +.\" +.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public +.\" License as specified in the file docs/COPYING.GPLv2 that comes with the +.\" man-db distribution. +.\" +.\" Sat Dec 10 19:33:32 GMT 1994 Wilf. (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk) +.\" +.pc +.TH %thzsoelim% 1 "%date%" "%version%" "Manual pager utils" +.SH NAME +%zsoelim% \- satisfy .so requests in roff input +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B %zsoelim% +.RB [\| \-CVh \|] +.RI [\| file +\&.\|.\|.\|] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B %zsoelim% +parses +.I file +arguments, or if none are specified, its standard input for lines of the +form: + +.B .so +.RI <\| filename \|> + +These requests are replaced by the contents of the +.I filename +specified. +If the request cannot be met, +.B %zsoelim% +looks for +.I filename.ext +where +.I .ext +can be one of +.BR .gz , +.B .Z +or +.BR .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, +.B 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. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-C ", " \-\-compatible +This flag is available for compatibility with other +.B 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. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-h ", " \-\-help +Print a help message and exit. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-V ", " \-\-version +Display version information. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR groff (1), +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR %man% (1), +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR nroff (1), +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR troff (1) +.SH AUTHOR +.nf +.if !'po4a'hide' Wilf.\& (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk). +.if !'po4a'hide' Fabrizio Polacco (fpolacco@debian.org). +.if !'po4a'hide' Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org). +.fi +.SH BUGS +.if !'po4a'hide' https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues +.br +.if !'po4a'hide' https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db |