Re: [leafnode-list] retrieving threads

[Mike Castle <dalgoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:41:01PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel) writes:
> > 
> > What is NOV supposed to do?
> 
> It's not a command, it's just the name for the XOVER data bases (the

Does NOV stand for New Over View?  I believe that tin originally had
XOVERVIEW (similar to what trn did with mthreads).  Both techniques were, I
suspect, analyzed when XOVER was designed.  So most likely NOV is a
historical leftover.

mrc
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