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In article: <817432884snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>  Philip McNab <philip@siberia.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> In article <817413286snz@phesk.demon.co.uk>
>            pbh@phesk.demon.co.uk "Peter Hesketh" writes:
> 
> > In article <817266360snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>
> >            philip@siberia.demon.co.uk "Philip McNab" writes:
> > 
> > On which newsgroup should I post a suggestion that Demon offers a local search 
> > program which users could call, such as:
> > 
> > find /pub -name $1 -print
> 
> I think you just answered your own question :)
> 
> A great idea, but I'd like to see access restricted to demon sites
> only.  Otherwise the enhanced findability might lead the ftp server
> to be swamped by a massive influx of ftp-ers from other ISPs, none
> of which provides (AFAIK) anything near as good as resource as
> ftp.demon.co.uk. :)
X-SMTP-Posting-Host: browns.demon.co.uk [Mon, 27 Nov 95 11:10:07 GMT]

src.doc.ic.ac.uk already has this feature: it's called 'ls -sf:gawk' 
or equivalent. Implemented using a local archie server. I'd love to 
see this become more widespread (maybe the people at wustl ought to be 
listening...?) 

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Alistair Bell, Brown's Operating System Services, London. Disclaimers as usual.
alistair@browns.co.uk (home: alistair@ichthya.demon.co.uk)

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