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.TH FMTDUMP %manext8% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
.SH NAME
fmtdump \- decode mh format files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.HP 5
.na
.B %libdir%/fmtdump
.RB [ \-form
.IR formatfile ]
.RB [ \-Version ]
.RB [ \-help ]
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Fmtdump
is a program that parses an
.B mh
format file and produces a pseudo-language listing of the how
.B mmh
interprets the file.  This is useful when debugging a complicated format file.
.PP
The
.B \-form
.I formatfile
switch may be used to specify a format file to read.
It may also be a format string directly, if prepended with an equal sign `='.
See
.BR mh-format (5)
for the details.

.SH FILES
.fc ^ ~
.nf
.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
^$HOME/.mmh/profile~^The user profile
^%etcdir%/scan.default~^The default format file
.fi

.SH "PROFILE COMPONENTS"
.fc ^ ~
.nf
.ta 2.4i
.ta \w'ExtraBigProfileName  'u
^Path:~^To determine the user's mail storage
.fi

.SH "SEE ALSO"
mh-format(5), mh-sequence(7)

.SH CONTEXT
None