Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!ira.uka.de!rusmv1!rusmv1!steff From: steff@steff@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de (Stefan Momma) Subject: Re: How to find a particular file without posting In-Reply-To: fritzz@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu's message of 23 Apr 91 14:35:37 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (USENET News System) Reply-To: steff@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de Organization: IMSV, University of Stuttgart, Germany References: Date: 25 Apr 91 17:49:07 Lines: 45 In article fritzz@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes: > > Every day there are several messages like > > "Where can I find style XYZ or program ABC ..." > > A nice solution is the following (if you can TELNET to Canada): > > >telnet 132.206.2.3 (quiche.cs.mcgill.ca) > > login: archie > > archie> set pager > archie> prog XYZ (where XYZ is a regexp of what you are looking for) > > Archie is automatically updated every once in a while, so if the file > you are looking for exists for longer than a couple of weeks, you'll > get a list of hosts where to ftp it from. > > > Fritz Zaucker > > -- > -- > Fritz Zaucker > Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University New York > Palisades, NY 10964 (914) 359-2900 x703 EMAIL: fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu it would be real nice, if this information could be included in the next FAQ issue to be posted (in fact it should be the first item in the FAQ list of _every_ newsgroup.) -- stefan -- Stefan Momma voicemail: +49-711-121-1431 (secr.: -3125) Projekt Polygloss Internet: momma@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de IMS-CL/IfI-AIS Because-It's-There-NET: nbab1424@ds0rus54 University of Stuttgart ICBMnet : 48 46 36 N; 9 10 48 E; alt 245 m SnailNet/Sneakernet: Keplerstrasse 17 D-7000 Stuttgart 1; Fed. Rep. of Germany