Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!brazeau.ucs.ualberta.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!ubc-cs!van-bc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!nick From: nick@osf.org (Nick Dokos) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: archie and Ymir Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 19:48:45 GMT Sender: news@OSF.ORG Distribution: comp.text.tex Organization: Open Software Foundation. Lines: 34 Here is the blurb on Archie from Jonathan Kamens's "How to find sources" article. This article can be obtained by anonymous ftp from pit-manager.mit.edu in directory /pub/usenet/comp.sources.wanted and is worth getting and reading. 2. The "archie" database "Archie" is a database of anonymous ftp sites and their contents. The software for it was written by the "Archie Group" at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and they maintain the database as well. "Archie" keeps track of the entire contents of a very large number of anonymous ftp sites, and allows you to search for files on those sites using various different kinds of filename searches. Archie also has a software description database (with contents similar to the output of the "whatis" command under Unix), on which you can do keyword searches. If you have Internet access, then you access archie by telnet'ing to the host quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (132.206.2.3 or 132.206.51.1) and logging in as "archie" with no password. Type "help" at that point for more information. If you do not have Internet access, then send a mail message to archie@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca with "help" in the body of the message to find out how to access archie via mail. Note that the mail interface to archie may not provide all of the functionality that the interactive interface provides. n -- Nick Dokos (nick@osf.org) Systems Engineering (uunet!osf.org!nick)