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This is the official release of Archie 1.3, a stand-alone client to
access the Archie FTP database. It's intended to help reduce the
interactive use of the archie server by providing a comfortable,
accessible, and faster method of query.
Changes since version 1.2 include:
* further portability, some mistakes worked out; now also runs with UCX
TCP/IP under VMS and CUTCP on PCs
* a few more bug fixes
* now uses env variable ARCHIE_HOST to override default archie server
* -L tells ya what the default is
* VMS build revamped completely
* includes the two new US servers
There are now a goodly number of servers available, so no one system
will get hit with the world's use. They are (as of 01/09/92):
archie.ans.net (USA [NY])
archie.rutgers.edu (USA [NJ])
archie.sura.net (USA [MD])
archie.mcgill.ca (Canada)
archie.funet.fi (Finland/Mainland Europe)
archie.au (Australia/New Zealand)
archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (Great Britain/Ireland)
The package will be available in the comp.sources.misc and vmsnet.sources
newsgroups (and, later, their archives), or via anonymous FTP from:
* ftp.cs.widener.edu [147.31.254.132] as pub/archie.tar.Z (unix)
or archie-vms.com (VMS DCL .com file)
* cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.209] as pub/archie-1.3.tar.Z
* ftp.huji.ac.il [132.65.6.5] as pub/archie-clients/c-archie.tar.Z
(for Israeli sites mainly)
* ftp.ans.net [147.225.1.2] as pub/archie/clients/c-archie-1.3.tar.Z
* nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100] in pub/unix/databases/archie as
archie-1.3.tar.Z
* soda.berkeley.edu [128.32.131.179] as pub/archie/archie-1.3.tar.Z
and pub/archie/archie.com
Please report any comments, suggestions, fixes, (whether positive or negative)
to brendan at cs.widener.edu. Enjoy!
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Brendan Kehoe, Widener University, Chester, PA
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Brendan Kehoe, Sun Network Manager brendan at cs.widener.edu
Widener University Chester, PA