4 overchan \- update the news overview database
12 reads article data from
14 or standard input if none are specified.
15 (A single dash in the file list means to read standard input.)
16 It uses this information to update the news overview database.
18 was originally designed to be used by InterNetNews or the C News ``mkov'' packages
19 to update the database as the articles come in.
20 For current INN, the database is stored in a selected overview method.
21 This can be done within
25 can be used instead, if
26 .I <useoverchan in inn.conf>
27 is ``true'' and appropriate setup is done in
32 overview!:*:Tc,WnteO:<pathbin in inn.conf>/overchan
36 input data consists of a line of text, separated into four parts by a space.
37 The first part is a token for the article.
38 The second part is time when the article was received.
39 The third part is time when the article will be expired (which represents
41 The fourth part is the data to be stored.
43 The data in the overview files should be expired by running
45 This is normally done by adding the ``expireover'' flag to the
50 Written by Rob Robertson <rob@violet.berkeley.edu>
51 and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.
53 This is revision \\$3, dated \\$4.
55 .R$ $Id: overchan.8 5909 2002-12-03 05:17:18Z vinocur $