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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
- Subject: Re: Psion, Atari Portfolio, HP-95LX FTP sites
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 03:55:51 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- Message-ID: <1ig9k7INNc6t@uwm.edu>
- References: <1ib4bdINNe9b@uwm.edu> <1993Jan6.110245.8783@spectrum.xerox.com>
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- In article <1993Jan6.110245.8783@spectrum.xerox.com> hdavies@rx.xerox.com writes:
- >In article 1ib4bdINNe9b@uwm.edu, anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
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- >Nice idea, but why not just tell people how to use Archie?
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- Because archie:
- isn't at all sites
- doesn't see all sites
- searches only by filename, not by file contents
- can be out of date
- can be slow
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- Archie was designed to find what users already know exists, not what
- they suspect exists but don't know. I hope to make the list into a
- general comp.sys.palmtops/comp.sys.handhelds FAQ List. I can hope
- someone else will do it instead.
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