week are judged to refer to a day in the past (e.g., telling \fIpick\fR
`saturday' on a `tuesday' means `last\ saturday'
not `this\ saturday').
-.PP
Finally, in addition to these special specifications,
.B pick
will
-also honor a specification of the form `\-dd', which means
-`dd days ago'.
+also honor a date specification of the form `\-\fIddd\fR', which means
+`\fIddd\fR days ago'.
+For example,
+.PP
+.RS 5
+.nf
+pick\0\-after\0\-30
+.fi
+.RE
+.PP
+identifies the messages of the last thirty days.
.PP
.B Pick
supports complex boolean operations on the searching primitives
.B extremely
useful for
quickly generating arguments for other
-.B nmh
+.B mmh
programs by using the
`backquoting' syntax of the shell. For example, the command
.PP
something like:
.PP
.RS 5
-show\0`pick\0last:20\0\-seq\0fear`
+show\0`pick\0l:20\0\-seq\0fear`
.RE
.PP
instead of typing
.PP
.RS 5
.nf
-mark\0\-add\0\-nozero\0\-seq\0fear\0last:20
+mark\0\-add\0\-nozero\0\-seq\0fear\0l:20
show\0fear
.fi
.RE
backquoting
.B pick
is empty. In the case of
-.B nmh
+.B mmh
programs,
the outer command now acts as if the default `msg' or `msgs' should be
used (e.g., `all' in the case of