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What is Archie?

April 26, 2017archie

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What is Archie?

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Archie is a tool people use for finding files at FTP sites. In essence, what you do is tell Archie that you’re interested in files with a specific name or files that have a specified string in their names (a string is just a chunk of text). Archie goes out and looks through a list of files at an Archie server. Then it builds a list of files (and their Locations) that match your description and sends you the list. If you see something you want to retrieve, you use FTP to retrieve the file.

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Archie is a database of what is on several thousand anonymous ftp sites. To use archie get one of the three archie clients which are as follows: xarchie – For use under X11 c-archie – Curses version of Archie archie – Perl Version of Archie Theses are available from archie.ans.net in the directory /pub/archie. List of other publicly available archie servers: archie.rutgers.edu 128.6.18.15 (Rutgers University) archie.unl.edu 129.93.1.14 (University of Nebraska in Lincoln) archie.sura.net 128.167.254.179 (SURAnet archie server) archie.ans.net 147.225.1.2 (ANS archie server) archie.au 139.130.4.6 (Australian server) archie.funet.fi 128.214.6.100 (European server in Finland) archie.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.11.3 (UK/England server) archie.cs.huji.ac.il 132.65.6.15 (Israel server) archie.wide.ad.jp 133.4.3.6 (Japanese server) archie.th-darmstadt.de 130.83.128.