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From: seligman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Scott Seligman)
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Subject: Re: mh on hp 9000 series
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Date: 8 Jul 89 01:13:49 GMT
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In article <1909@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> crouch@axion.bt.co.uk writes:
>I've managed to get mh to run on our hp cluster; however we have a problem
>with the scan command. Scan doesn't seem able to extract the dat from the
>message, so when we type scan we get output such as:
>
> 6  00/01 To:crouch@axion.b  starting getalias
>
>    ^^^^^	This should be 07/06.

I had exactly the same problem.  I fixed it by "lex"ing the file
zotnet/tws/dtimep.lex on another system.  It looks to me like 
lex on our 6.2 system was buggy.  I haven't tried it under
6.5.  Let me know if you'd like me to send you a working version
of dtimep.c, the output of lex.

Scott
seligman@polya.stanford.edu