Re: why do i get "invalid day of month"

2000-06-11 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- Bob, thanks a bunch for your patch; I think that it would be a pretty good thing and don't immediately see a reason to use octal or hex nummbering anyway (does anyone?) Mikko, you must have way too much time on your hands :-) Thanks to all for the quick pointer to the real cause -- P

Re: why do i get "invalid day of month"

2000-06-09 Thread Bob Bell
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:50:51PM +0300, Mikko Hnninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if it would be possible to make Mutt always assume decimal, as > I doubt anyone will be specifying dates in either octal or hex. :-) > > It's kind of cool though, a limit of ~r 011/6/0x7d0- actually wo

Re: why do i get "invalid day of month"

2000-06-09 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Chr. v. Stuckrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 09 Jun 2000: > Mutt may be stumbling upon an octal digit '9' > which is illegal by reading the Number '09' > which is 'in octal' beginning with '0'. Yes, this must be it. I tried 01/09/1999- as the limit, and Mutt then complained of invalid mont

Re: why do i get "invalid day of month"

2000-06-09 Thread Lars Hecking
Chr. v. Stuckrad writes: > This 'leaving out the '0' might explain it :-) > > Mutt may be stumbling upon an octal digit '9' > which is illegal by reading the Number '09' > which is 'in octal' beginning with '0'. > (Standard conversion in C-library). I was just about to post this, but you beat

Re: why do i get "invalid day of month"

2000-06-09 Thread Chr. v. Stuckrad
This 'leaving out the '0' might explain it :-) Mutt may be stumbling upon an octal digit '9' which is illegal by reading the Number '09' which is 'in octal' beginning with '0'. (Standard conversion in C-library). I did not look in the sources though, but I had that problem a few times in program

Re: why do i get "invalid day of month"

2000-06-09 Thread Mikko Hänninen
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 09 Jun 2000: > push "l ~N ~r 09/06/2000-\n" > Invalid day of month: 09/06/2000- Reproduced here. (Mutt 1.1.9) I didn't try it with push, just a regular limit command. Leaving out the 0 before the 9 ("9/06/2000") helps, Mutt doesn't complain anym

why do i get "invalid day of month"

2000-06-09 Thread David T-G
Hi, folks -- A while back I asked about automatic limiting by date and for help with pushing in a limit command when calling mutt from a script. Well, I have all of that worked out -- or thought I did, at least. My little script goes through the procmail logs and generates a list of folders to