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ap



PURPOSE

Parses and reformats addresses.

SYNTAX


      +--------------------+ +--- -normalize ---+ +--------------+
ap ---|       one of       |-|      one of      |-|              |--- user ---|
      | +----------------+ | | +--------------+ | +- -width num -+ ^        |
      +-| -form file     |-+ +-| -normalize   |-+                  +--------+
        | -format string |     | -nonormalize |
        +----------------+     +--------------+

ap --- -help ---|


DESCRIPTION

The ap command is used to parse and reformat addresses.  ap is not designed to
be run directly by the user; it is designed to be called by other programs.
The ap command is typically called by its full path name, and is part of the
Message Handling (MH) package.

The ap command parses each string specified as an address and attempts to
reformat the string.  The default output format for ap is the ARPA RFC822
standard.  When the default format is used, ap displays an error message for
each string it is unable to parse.

FLAGS

-form file        Reformats the given addresses into the alternate format
                  described in file.

-format string    Reformats the given addresses into the alternate format
                  specified by string.  The default format string is:

                    %<{error}%{error}:%{address}%|%(putstr(proper{address}))%>

-help             Displays help information for the command.

-nonormalize      Does not attempt to convert local nicknames of hosts to their
                  official host names.

-normalize        Attempts to convert local nicknames of hosts to their
                  official host names.  This flag is the default.




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-width num        Sets the maximum number of columns that ap uses to display
                  dates and error messages.  The default is the width of the
                  display.

FILES

$HOME/.mh_profile        The MH user profile.
/usr/lib/mh/mtstailor    The MH tailor file.

RELATED INFORMATION

See other MH commands:  "ali," "dp" and "scan."

See the mh-alias, mh-format, and mh-profile files in AIX Operating System
Technical Reference.

See "Overview of the Message Handling Package" in Managing the AIX Operating
System.





































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