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In article <1993Jan4.184635.24169@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:
>How long does it take for the archie machines to be updated once new files
>have been installed on the ftp machines? Just wantin' to know.

I don't know, but when I made some sporadic testing almost a year
ago, the results were then rather discouraging.  The lags tended to
be from 2-5 weeks, and most importantly some files did not show up
at all at many databases where they should have been.  Perhaps
things have changed since then (I hope so), but at least back then
archie's usefulness in pinpointing recent versions was poor.  But it
is a very useful start when you are looking for something
established, and know fairly accurately the stem of the filename. 

Note that I am not castigating archie or rooting for our own systems
(I have no reason for that).  But my advice for looking for a
program is to start by looking at the following filelists
(especially the first two) and augmenting the results with a archie
search. 

wsmr-simtel20.army.mil: PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>SIMLIST.ZIP
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEX.ZIP

garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEXTS.ZIP
garbo.uwasa.fi:/unix/INDEX.ZIP
garbo.uwasa.fi:/win3/INDEX
garbo.uwasa.fi:/win31/INDEX
garbo.uwasa.fi:/ql/QLINDEX

You might also wish to look at the BBS filelists we have.  Not to
get the files from those BBSes, but just to additionally see if the
kind of programs are in existence that you are looking for, and did
not find on SIMTEL20 or Garbo lists.  At garbo those additional
(oldish) lists are in the /pc/bbs directory. 

   All the best, Timo

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