From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 08:13:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA22918 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack.colorado.edu (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA22899 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.colorado.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id JAA12098; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:13:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3247FA86.27F0@Colorado.EDU> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:13:10 -0600 From: "Mark O'Lear" Organization: University of Colorado X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" CC: Alain FAUCONNET , freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: archie References: <199609241148.AA06580@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> <199609241134.NAA05600@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > Alain FAUCONNET writes: > > Christoph Kukulies wrote / a ecrit: > > > > > > > > > Anyone using archie? I never get any response from an archie request. > > > I remember it worked with a 1.1.5.1 binary but since I'm running >=2.1 > > > archie always times out. > > > > > > > What server are you using ? (type 'archie -L') > > It might be dead or overloaded. > > I'm using > > archie.th-darmstadt.de > > > In Europe, I have found archie.switch.ch and archie.doc.ic.ac.uk to be > > reasonably responsive. The french one I was using before seems to > > have died, though :-( > > Set the ARCHIE_SERVER environment variable to one of the above servers > > and see what happens. > > > > > This may be by coincidence. Has the archie service died in general? > > > I mean, now that everyone is searching via web? > > > > My feeling is that the archie service is not what it used to be. The > > databases are often badly outdated, presumably because site admins > > don't care about maintaining the index files archie servers pick up. > > > > It is dying ? I hope not. For most of the searches I have to do, it is > > much more practical than the WEB search engines, and I presume it uses > > much less net resources. > > WEB searches often bring up so much unwanted stuff that I believe > their resource waste is bigger :-) > > Or do you know an elegant search on ftp server related only stuff > yielding results in the terse form archie gives? > > > > > _Alain_ > > > > > > -- > > Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM > > Public Health 91 bld de l'Hopital 75013 PARIS FRANCE > > Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr > > Tel: (+33) 1-40-77-96-19 Fax: (+33) 1-45-86-80-68 > > I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator" > > But... I *am* the system administrator :-] > > -- > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de You might give the following a try: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Searching_the_Net/Archie/ -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \