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 822-format.
Hence, it is usually best to enclose each argument in double-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 822-proper format of the date.
FILES
^$HOME/.mh_profile~^The user profile
PROFILE COMPONENTS
None
SEE ALSO
ap(8),
Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages
(RFC-822)
DEFAULTS
`-format' default as described above
`-width' default to the width of the terminal
CONTEXT
None
BUGS
The argument to the
-format
switch must be interpreted as a single token by the shell that invokes
dp.
Therefore, one must usually place the argument to this switch inside double-quotes.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- FILES
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- PROFILE COMPONENTS
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- SEE ALSO
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- DEFAULTS
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- CONTEXT
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- BUGS
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