|font:Courier New||B:0|Archie is another "bare" Net searching tool.  Typing "archie" within your Internet service’s main screen, or selecting it from your commercial provider’s menu or (sometimes) a Gopher site’s menu, puts you in search mode and presents a list of options.  Archie identifies FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites.  FTP sites are remote computers that will let you download files from their collections, including software, graphics, or even book-length texts.  |CR||CR||B:1|1/2^|font:Courier New||B:0|Archie can come in handy if you're looking for a shareware calendar program or, say, the complete works of Lewis Carroll. Like Veronica, though, it can be pretty slow going; it's often more efficient to use a link from a Web page or get a pointer from a fellow Nethead and navigate to a site directly. |CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||CR||B:1|2/2|CR||CR|