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DP(8mh)                                                                                      DP(8mh)



NAME
       dp - nmh parser of RFC 822-style dates

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/lib/mh/dp [-help] [-version] [-form formatfile] [-format string] [-width columns] dates
            ...

DESCRIPTION
       dp is a program that parses dates according to the ARPA Internet standard.   It  also  under‐
       stands many non-standard formats, such as those produced by TOPS-20 sites and some Unix sites
       using ctime(3).  It is useful for seeing how nmh will interpret a date.

       The dp program treats each argument as a single date, and prints the date out in the official
       RFC 822 format.  Hence, it is usually best to enclose each argument in quotes for the shell.

       To  override  the  output  format used by dp, the -format string or -format file switches are
       used.  This permits individual fields of the address to be extracted with ease.   The  string
       is simply a format string and the file is simply a format file.  See mh-format(5) for the de‐
       tails.

       Here is the default format string used by dp:

            %<(nodate{text})error: %{text}%|%(putstr(pretty{text}))%>

       which says that if an error was detected, print the error, a `:',  and  the  date  in  error.
       Otherwise, output the RFC 822-proper format of the date.

FILES
       $HOME/.mh_profile   The user's profile.

PROFILE COMPONENTS
       None

SEE ALSO
       fmttest(1), ap(8),

       Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (RFC 822)

DEFAULTS
       -format             As described above.
       -width              The width of the terminal.

CONTEXT
       None



nmh-1.7.1                                    1999-04-30                                      DP(8mh)