X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/cbce5e434f84af560946e16709d3c2ad10eb8942..bcb443a54dc3e08c2aa51fa1dd414cf2023fc037:/man/dp.man diff --git a/man/dp.man b/man/dp.man index 04c68883..7998c2d0 100644 --- a/man/dp.man +++ b/man/dp.man @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH DP %manext8% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%] +.TH DP %manext8% "November 6, 2012" "%nmhversion%" .\" .\" %nmhwarning% .\" @@ -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 @@ -62,27 +62,24 @@ 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 +.TP 20 +$HOME/.mh\-profile +The user's profile. .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 +.PD 0 +.TP 20 +\-format +As described above. +.TP +\-width +The width of the terminal. +.PD .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.