AP(8)               RISC/os Reference Manual                AP(8)



NAME
     ap - parse addresses 822-style

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/new/lib/mh/ap [-form formatfile] [-format string]
          [-normalize] [-nonormalize] [-width columns] addrs ...
          [-help]

DESCRIPTION
     Ap is a program that parses addresses according to the ARPA
     Internet standard.  It also understands many non-standard
     formats.  It is useful for seeing how MH will interpret an
     address.

     The ap program treats each argument as one or more
     addresses, and prints those addresses out in the official
     822-format.  Hence, it is usually best to enclose each argu-
     ment in double-quotes for the shell.

     To override the output format used by ap, the
     `-format string' or `-format file' switches are used.  This
     permits individual fields of the address to be extracted
     with ease.  The string is simply a format stringand thefile
     is simply a format file.  See mh-format (5) for the details.

     In addition to the standard escapes, scan also recognizes
     the following additional escape:
     escape  substitution
     error   a diagnostic if the parse failed

     If the `-normalize' switch is given, ap will try to track
     down the official hostname of the address.

     Here is the default format string used by ap:

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

     which says that if an error was detected, print the error, a
     `:', and the address in error.  Otherwise, output the
     822-proper format of the address.

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

PROFILE COMPONENTS
     None

SEE ALSO
     dp(8),
     Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (aka
     RFC-822)



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DEFAULTS
     `-format' defaults as described above
     `-normalize'
     `-width' defaults to the width of the terminal

CONTEXT
     None

BUGS
     The argument to the `-format' switch must be interpreted as
     a single token by the shell that invokes ap.  Therefore, one
     must usually place the argument to this switch inside
     double-quotes.

     On hosts where MH was configured with the BERK option,
     address parsing is not enabled.







































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