🚀 go-pugleaf

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)