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- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
- Subject: Re: archie updates
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.074227.6018@uwasa.fi>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 07:42:27 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.184635.24169@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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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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- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
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