A ARCHIE, UTILITIES, Utility to search files available at FTP sites    [Last changed 04/14/92 v1.3.2]  F  Enclosed you'll find a Prospero client for the archie service.  It'll< let you query the archie databases without actually using anJ interactive process on the remote server's machine (e.g., archie.ans.net),C resulting in a MUCH better response time.  It also helps lessen the ! load on the archie server itself.   L  What's Archie?  It's a system that will let you check a database containingH thousands of entries for the files that're available at FTP sites around
 the world.  J  This is a third child of Clifford Neuman's Prospero project.  It's reallyK the Archie client that's included in the prospero stuff, but I've taken out G everything that's unnecessary for this client to work.  (Aka, you don't G have to build all of Prospero to get the Archie client.)  Khun Yee Fung D wrote an archie client in Perl, George Ferguson has written a clientA for use with XWindows, based in part upon this code.  Also, Scott , Stark wrote a NeXT-Step client for the NeXT.  I  Using the Archie Prospero interface in its true form will probably be of I interest---check out the file `Prospero' for an example of its interface. H If you find it intriguing, you should probably get the full prospero kitM from the University of Washington on cs.washington.edu in pub/prospero.tar.Z.   G  Suffice to say, there are now a number of ways to query Archie without ' bogging a server down with your logins.   C  Check out the man page (or archie.doc, if you're using VMS or DOS) D for instructions on how to use this archie client.  VMS users pleaseF note that you have to put quotes around args that are capital letters;; for example,  $ ARCHIE "-L"  to list the available servers.   F  Please check to make sure you don't have "archie" aliased or modifiedB in some way to do a telnet or rlogin (which you may've done before+ this command-line ability came into being).   =  If Archie consistently hangs (at different times of day with C different queries), it's possible that your site has UDP traffic on C ports > 1000 blocked, for security reasons.  Type `make udptest' to F check---if it prints out the date, the Archie server is probably down;C if it doesn't print out the date, either Widener's computer is down E (God forbid ;-) ) or you do indeed have UDP blocked.  See your system D administrator in this case.  If the problem persists and haven't theC vaguest, then write me describing the situation and what machine/OS 
 you're using.   G  Write to archie-group@cs.mcgill.ca with questions about Archie itself. <  Write to info-prospero@isi.edu about the Prospero protocol.L  Write to brendan@cs.widener.edu with questions about this specific package.