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To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co
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From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 18 Apr 1997 08:13:34 +0200
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pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co writes:

> Howdy,
> I want to port SlingShot, it provides cut and past support to Xview. It's
> supposed to be in ftp.x.org, but I didn't find it there.
> What are the preferred methods of searching ftp sites? archie rarely
> returns something of value, and this Altavista and Lycos end up returning
> irrelevant information.

I've had good results with `archie -h ftpsearch.ntnu.no' lately.

FWIW, I remember having ported SlingShot in the 386BSD days. Maybe I
can dig up the patches. 

tg