bionic (5) overview.fmt.5.gz

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NAME

       overview.fmt - format of news overview database

DESCRIPTION

       The  file  /etc/news/overview.fmt  specifies the organization of the news overview database.  Blank lines
       and lines beginning with a number sign (``#'')  are  ignored.   The  order  of  lines  in  this  file  is
       important; it determines the order in which the fields will appear in the database.

       Most  lines  will  consist  of an article header name, optionally followed by a colon.  A trailing set of
       lines can have the word ``full'' appear after the colon; this indicates that the header should appear  as
       well as its value.

       If  this  file  is  changed,  it  is  usually  necessary  to rebuild the existing overview database using
       expireover(8) after removing all existing overview files.

       The default file, show below, is compatible with Geoff Collyer's ``nov'' package:
              Subject:
              From:
              Date:
              Message-ID:
              References:
              Bytes:
              Lines:
              ##  Some newsreaders get better performance if Xref is present
              #Xref:full

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  Intended  to  be  compatible  with  the  nov
       package written by Geoff Collyer <geoff@world.std.com>.  This is revision 1.6, dated 1996/09/06.

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