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Does INN implement NOV, xthread (trn) or xuser/xmotd (tin) commands?

April 26, 2017commands implement Inn Nov tin TRN

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Does INN implement NOV, xthread (trn) or xuser/xmotd (tin) commands?

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Newsreaders all need some way to quickly grab data from a range of articles. trn, tin, nn, and others each developed their own database format, and their own extensions to the NNTP protocol for clients to read the database. Then, Geoff Collyer invented NOV, the database to end all other databases. Rather than support a different database format for each newsreader, INN supports Geoff Collyer’s news overview database, NOV. INN includes everything you need to create/maintain/expire NOV’s .overview files. You only need Geoff’s distribution (available via FTP on ftp.std.com src/news/nov.dist.tar.Z) if you want to see how he implements things, or to get his client library (useful when building some newsreaders). It is very easy to configure INN to use NOV. Read Part 4/9 of this faq: Subject: Cookbook example of setting up NOV (“overchan”) NB: The NOV code in INN 1.3 is buggy. Use 1.4 or higher. The xover command is used for querying the NOV database. The xover command is very smart in that