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dp



PURPOSE

Parses and reformats dates.

SYNTAX


                  +--------------------+   +--------------+
/usr/lib/mh/dp ---|       one of       |---|              |--- date ---|
                  | +----------------+ |   +- -width num -+ ^        |
                  +-| -form file     |-+                    +--------+
                    | -format string |
                    +----------------+

/usr/lib/mh/dp --- -help ---|


Note:  This command does not have MBCS support.

DESCRIPTION

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

The dp command parses each string specified as a date and attempts to reformat
the string.  The default output format for the command is the ARPA RFC822
standard.  For each string it is unable to parse, the dp command displays an
error message.

FLAGS

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

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

                     %<(nodate{date})error:%{date}%|%(putstr(pretty{date}))%>

                   Prints "error" if the date is not a parsable date, or prints
                   a friendly rendering of the date.

-help              Displays help information for the command.





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

FILES

$HOME/.mh_profile     The MH user profile.

RELATED INFORMATION

See the following command:  "ap."

See the 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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