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From: rwl@uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky)
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Subject: Re: tbl preprocessor for expanding .so files
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Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 23:03:10 EDT
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> This filter can be used to expand tables specified in files that
> are dragged in by .so nroff commands.  It's needed in front of
> pipelines like
> 	tbl ... | nroff ...
				:
				:

Correct if I'm wrong, but isn't this just a weaker version of  soelim(1)?   I'm
on 4.2 BSD, so, I don't know, maybe this filter doesn't exist on other versions
of Unix.  If it does, there's no point in reinventing the wheel.  Soelim(1) can
also handle nesting of ".so" calls.
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Ray Lubinsky		     University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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