About .overview file that created by gnus-agent.

[Tatsuya Ichikawa <ichikawa@hv.epson.co.jp>]

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;; I'm sorry for my bad English.

  I always use gnus-agent to read news and mail on unplugged state.

  But my Internet service provider's news server does not return a Xref 
  header , so nnheader-parse-nov returns nil.
  I don't know the version of INN of my Internet service provider.

  So gnus-agent-expire does not expire articles and remove .overview line.
  After gnus-agent-expire has done , .overview file contains nothing.

  This problem is very serious for me.
  So I create following patch to work with .overview file that does not have
  Xref field.

  I have one question.

  Is this a standard setting that news server returns Xref header ??
  If this is true , I ask my Internet service provider's administrator to 
  return Xref header.
  If this is not always true , pleas apply following patch to gnus-agent.el


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--- gnus-agent.el.orig	Sat Feb 14 14:09:53 1998
+++ gnus-agent.el	Sat Feb 14 14:45:55 1998
@@ -693,6 +693,18 @@
 	(unless (eq 'nov (gnus-retrieve-headers articles group))
 	  (nnvirtual-convert-headers))
 	;; Save these headers for later processing.
+	;;
+	;; To gnus-agent-expire work fine with no Xref field in .overview 
+	;; Tatsuya Ichikawa <ichikawa@hv.epson.co.jp>
+	(goto-char (point-min))
+	(while (not (eobp))
+	  (and (not (nnheader-parse-nov))
+	       (goto-char (point-at-eol))
+	       (insert "\t"))
+	  (forward-line 1))
+	;; Tatsuya Ichikawa <ichikawa@hv.epson.co.jp>
+	;; To gnus-agent-expire work fine with no Xref field in .overview 
+	;;
 	(copy-to-buffer gnus-agent-overview-buffer (point-min) (point-max))
 	(let (file)
 	  (when (file-exists-p

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  Thanks.

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Tatsuya Ichikawa : Epson Software Development Lab, Inc. Nagano , Japan.
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