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The Archie database at McGill University can now be queried using
Prospero and a standalone Archie client supporting the Archie "prog"
query is available.

For users running Prospero, the database can be found in the Prospero
directory /archive-sites/archie.  If you connect to that directory
using Prospero, you will see subdirectories "host" and "regex".

If you look in "host", you will see nothing, but if you look in
"host/hostname", you will see Archie's view of the root directory for
that host.  You can connect to or list individual subdirectories as
well.

The directory "regex" also appears to be empty, but if you specify a
regular expression as a file name, you will see a directory containing
the results of the Archie query.

Version Alpha.4.5 of Prospero is available by anonymous FTP from
cs.washington.edu from the file pub/prospero.tar.Z.  Older version
continue to work, but pre-version 4 clients are more likely to time
out on long queries.  This release includes a standalone Archie client
that, once compiled, can be run from systems that aren't running
Prospero.  Those who have already installed Prospero Version 4.4 can
retrieve the Archie client separately from pub/pfs/files/prog.tar.Z on
cs.washington.edu.

Although useful in its own right, the Archie client should be
considered a sample client.  It shows how an application can query the
Archie database using the Prospero protocol.  Others are encouraged to
build their own applications around it.

	~ Cliff