+.TH DP %manext8% "November 6, 2012" "%nmhversion%"
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-.TH DP %manext8% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
.SH NAME
dp \- parse dates 822-style
.SH SYNOPSIS
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
-.BR ctime (3).
+.IR ctime (3).
It is useful for seeing how
.B nmh
will interpret a date.
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
-.BR mh\-format (5)
+.IR mh\-format (5)
for the details.
.PP
Here is the default format string used by
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.
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.SH FILES
.fc ^ ~
.nf
.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName 'u
^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
.fi
-
.SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"
None
-
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-ap(8),
+.IR ap (8),
+.PP
.I "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages"
(RFC\-822)
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.SH DEFAULTS
.nf
.RB ` \-format "' default as described above"
.RB ` \-width "' default to the width of the terminal"
.fi
-
.SH CONTEXT
None
-
-.SH BUGS
-The argument to the
-.B \-format
-switch must be interpreted as a single token by the shell that invokes
-.BR dp .
-Therefore, one must usually place the argument to this switch inside quotes.