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OVERVIEW.FMT(5) 						File Formats Manual						   OVERVIEW.FMT(5)

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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