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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!freya.let.rug.nl!dboer
- From: dboer@let.rug.nl (Ale de Boer)
- Subject: Re: -=> THE FTP-SITE YOU NEED FOR GETTING GAMES! <=-
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.115058.16975@let.rug.nl>
- Keywords: ftp, archie, anonymous
- Sender: news@let.rug.nl (news manager)
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- Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
- References: <1992Aug25.021532.8905@doug.cae.wisc.edu> <BtJBE6.E24@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Aug26.071208.13268@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:50:58 GMT
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- >>The two most useful commands for archie are "prog", as Christian mentioned,
- >>and "mail."
- >>When you hit a long "hit" (as most people will when their search pattern isn't
- >>VERY tight) the output will scroll off the screen for quite some time. This is
- >>when mail is handy.
- >>After the screen display returns to the archie prompt type
- >>mail your.name@your.net.address
- >>and archie will mail what you've just seen to your account. You can mail
- >>the output to anyone ("Oh goodie, Elmo will just LOVE this!") whose address
- >>you have.
-
- >It seems that the archie you use is more sophisticated than the one they run
- >at archie.unl.edu, the one I use. Is the archie at archie.sura.net a newer
- >version? The version that I use just scrolls once all the matches are found
- >until the last match. It's a pain to find what you're looking for unless
- >you use a complex regexp or have a capture buffer.
-
- Hmm, got no idea which version they use at nic.funet.fi, but I do know what you
- can do there is send a message to archie@nic.funet.fi. No subject necessary,
- and in the message body you put something like
-
- prog xxxx
-
- with xxxx the substring you want to search for, and presto, archie sends the
- output to your mail address.
-
- Ale.
-