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- From: icsu0130@cs.montana.edu (Robert)
- Subject: archie knows ftp
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.021534.6024@coe.montana.edu>
- Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:15:34 GMT
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- Archie is a useful internet program that can help
- locate public domain files. Archie maintains a database
- of over 1300 anonymous ftp sites and can tell you about
- all sites that have a particular file that interests
- you.
-
- To access Archie, do the following steps. (You might want to make
- a script session of your interactions so that all of the information
- located by Archie will be recorded.)
-
-
- 1) telnet archie.unl.edu
- (This site is in Lincoln, Nebraska. It is Internet etiquette
- not to access sites during weekday business hours.)
-
- 2) The login name you should provide is 'archie'.
- Do not type the single quotes.
-
- 3) Type 'help' to find out what commands are available to you.
-
- 4) Type 'prog searchstring' to find all public domain sites that
- contain your searchstring.
-
- 5) Type 'exit' to leave archie.
-
-
- --
- **** Clem@fubar.cs.montana.edu or Icsu0130@caesar.cs.montana.edu *****
- Whitehouse - the next generation
- No. 1 - It's wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves.
- Clintoon - Resistance is futile. Your middle class incomes will be assimilated.
-