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In <s1#r-j-@lynx.unm.edu> caadams@polaris.unm.edu (Clifford A Adams) writes:

>Is someone willing to add the nov support to NN?

This has been discussed by the nn maintainers, and there is interest in
it. The problem is that it takes some work, and is a big backwards
compatibility headache. What basically needs to be done is to scrap the
old database alltogether and start work on nn 6.5. However, nov doesn't
work over NNTP yet, and there is no precise equivalent of nnmaster yet
(or so I think). Also, nov does not currently provide all of the functionality
nn wants (in particular, it doesn't always count the lines).

One approach that has been suggested is to put big #ifdefs around the
old/new code, but this will make a mess. A different approach would
be to make a pseudo-nov accessing the old database. Nobody has
volunteered yet to do it.

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