reads article data from
or standard input if none are specified.
(A single dash in the file list means to read standard input.)
It uses this information to update the news overview database.
is designed to be used by InterNetNews or the C News ``mkov'' packages
to update the database as the articles come in.
The database for each newsgroup is stored in a file named
in a newsgroup directory within the overview database tree.
locks the database file (by locking an auxiliary file) before appending the
To purge data after articles have been expired, see
processes its input as an INN overview stream written as a ``WO'' entry
file, for example:
This data consists of a line of text, separated into two parts by a tab.
The first part is a list of all relative pathnames where the article has
been written, with a single space between entries.
The second part is the data to be written into the overview file, except
that the initial article number is omitted.
The data in the overview files should be expired by running
This is normally done by adding the ``expireover'' flag to the
To process the output of the
program, use the ``-c'' flag.
This format is described in the ``nov'' distribution.
The ``-D'' flag can be used to specify where the databases are stored.
The default directory is