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1.1       root        1: .TH PROMPTDATE 1 3/13/86
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: promptdate \- accept date entry and print out in specified format
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B promptdate
                      6: [
                      7: .B -f format
                      8: ] [
                      9: .B datespec
                     10: ]
                     11: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     12: If no format is specified, one suitable for parsing by MH
                     13: will be used.
                     14: .PP
                     15: If no date is given on the command line,
                     16: .I promptdate
                     17: will interactively prompt for one.
                     18: It will persist in asking for a date until
                     19: a legal date is supplied.
                     20: To exit, type the EOF character (normally control-d).
                     21: .PP
                     22: The syntax of an acceptable date specification is:
                     23: .IP
                     24: "today" | "tomorrow" | <dayofweek> | "+"<daysfromtoday>
                     25: | <date> [<month> [<year>]]
                     26: .PP
                     27: where:
                     28: .IP
                     29: <dayofweek> is "sunday",...,"saturday"
                     30: .IP
                     31: <daysfromtoday> is an unsigned decimal number
                     32: .IP
                     33: <date> is a valid date for that month
                     34: .IP
                     35: <month> is "january",...,"december"
                     36: .IP
                     37: <year> is > 1970
                     38: .PP
                     39: Alphabetic strings may be in
                     40: any mix of upper or lower case.
                     41: They may also be abbreviated to
                     42: the first three letters.
                     43: .PP
                     44: <dayofweek> is equivalent
                     45: to specifying from "+1" to "+7".
                     46: .SH AUTHOR
                     47: Ken Yap (University of Rochester)
                     48: .SH BUGS
                     49: This manual page lies - the format is hardwired for MH.
                     50: General date formatting is not implemented yet.
                     51: .PP
                     52: Should accept more date formats. Will be replaced by a
                     53: user-friendlier version soon.

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