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DP(8)			     System Manager's Manual			   DP(8)

NAME
     dp - nmh parser of RFC 822-style dates

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/local/libexec/nmh/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 understands 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 details.

     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-1.8+dev			   1999-04-30				   DP(8)

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