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- From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
- Subject: Re: FTP archive sites
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.111512.9792@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
- References: <1992Sep02.151743.22773@edm.isac.CA> <1992Sep3.103258.12965@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:15:12 GMT
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- overby@cray.com (Glen Overby) writes:
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- >Don't forget that you can always ask Archie where things exist.
-
- Yes, but archie has a few problems, too:
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- The archie servers are not synchronized. It is possible (and
- has happened to me several times) that your default archie
- server does not know about the host which has the files you are
- looking for, but another one does.
-
- Archie uses the "ls -lR" command to get a recursive listing.
- This works only on Unix hosts (or FTP servers which emulate
- Unix ls).
-
- Last, but not least, archie has the same problem as the Minix
- Information Sheet: If somebody starts a new archive, he has to
- tell the archie servers about it.
-
- In general it does work fine, though.
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