X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fdp.man;h=3f98913a87a78afd9d3ebd7428b499f8c7ccaecd;hb=5e5e8b753acc7ff1e16c7fca172a2151a6c01353;hp=6eeae1229f2f8f0a34f8d77f1a4a098b65874370;hpb=ee7edecc034e48b6c98a73f12ec6183a1deb9a40;p=mmh diff --git a/man/dp.man b/man/dp.man index 6eeae12..3f98913 100644 --- a/man/dp.man +++ b/man/dp.man @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ +.TH DP %manext8% "November 6, 2012" "%nmhversion%" .\" .\" %nmhwarning% .\" -.TH DP %manext8% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%] .SH NAME dp \- parse dates 822-style .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ dp \- parse dates 822-style 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. @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ 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 -.BR mh\-format (5) +.IR mh\-format (5) for the details. .PP Here is the default format string used by @@ -61,34 +61,23 @@ 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. - .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) - .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.