puzzler nndoc/nndir

puzzler nndoc/nndir

[Harry Putnam]

Just noticed a small  problem, not sure if it is version specific but
am running pgnus-0.83 (fsf emacs 20.3).

I have several nndoc groups pointing at various procmail created spool
files, and a couple of nndir groups pointing at procmail created files
in a one messaged per file directory setup.  I don't really want to
slurp these particular files into gnus so just leave them as nndoc or
nndir.  (just for review purposes)

All nndoc groups show the number of lines in the messages
Neither nndir shows them consistently.  Out of several hundred
messages maybe 20 show the number of lines in the message, the rest
say "0"  in the summary buffer.  I can't seem to pin down what is
different about the few with line numbers showing, other than some but
not all have a header with line number in it.

Here's the kicker.... catting the one messages per file messages into
a spool format and opening an nndoc group on it, shows all the line
numbers for each message.  Anyone know what is going on here?

Re: puzzler nndoc/nndir

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Neither nndir shows them consistently.  Out of several hundred
> messages maybe 20 show the number of lines in the message, the rest
> say "0"  in the summary buffer. 

nndir looks at the "Lines" header of the messages.  If that is
missing, nndir will report a line count of zero.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen