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- archie - query the Archie anonymous FTP databases using
- Prospero
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- aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee [[[[ ----cccceeeerrrrssss ] [ ----aaaa ] [ ----llll ] [ ----tttt ] [ ----mmmm _h_i_t_s ]
- [ ----NNNN [[[[ _l_e_v_e_l ] ] [ ----hhhh _h_o_s_t_n_a_m_e ] [ ----oooo _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e ]
- [ ----LLLL ] [ ----VVVV ] [ ----vvvv ] _s_t_r_i_n_g
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- DDDDEEEESSSSCCCCRRRRIIIIPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNN
- aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee queries an archie anonymous FTP database looking for
- the specified _s_t_r_i_n_g using the PPPPrrrroooossssppppeeeerrrroooo protocol. This
- client is based on PPPPrrrroooossssppppeeeerrrroooo version Beta.4.2 and is provided
- to encourage non-interactive use of the Archie servers (and
- subsequently better performance on both sides). This man
- page describes version 1.3 of the client.
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- The general method of use is of the form
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- % aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee ssssttttrrrriiiinnnngggg
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- This will go to the archie server and ask it to look for all
- known systems that have a file named `string' in their FTP
- area. aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee will wait, and print out any matches.
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- For example,
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- % aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee eeeemmmmaaaaccccssss
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- will find all anonymous FTP sites in the archie database
- that have files named eeeemmmmaaaaccccssss somewhere in their FTP area.
- (This particular query would probably return a lot of
- directories.) If you want a list of every filename that
- contains eeeemmmmaaaaccccssss _a_n_y_w_h_e_r_e in it, you'd use
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- % aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee ----cccc eeeemmmmaaaaccccssss
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- Regular expressions, such as
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- % aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee ----rrrr ''''[[[[xxxxXXXX]]]][[[[llllLLLL]]]]iiiisssspppp''''
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- may also be used for searches. (See the manual of a
- reasonably good editor, like GNU Emacs or vi, for more
- information on using regular expressions.)
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- The options currently available to this aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee client are:
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- ----cccc Search substrings paying attention to upper &
- lower case.
- ----eeee Exact string match. (This is the default.)
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- ----rrrr Search using a regular expression.
- ----ssss Search substrings ignoring the case of the
- letters.
- ----oooo_f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e If specified, place the results of the search in
- _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e.
- ----aaaa Output results as Alex filenames.
- ----llll Output results in a form suitable for parsing by
- programs.
- ----tttt Sort the results inverted by date.
- ----mmmm_h_i_t_s Specifies the maximum number of hits (matches)
- to return (default of 99995555).
- ----NNNN_l_e_v_e_l Sets the _n_i_c_e_n_e_s_s of a query; by default, it's
- set to 0. Without an argument, ``-N'' defaults
- to 33335555777766665555. If you use ----NNNN with an argument
- between 0 and 35765, it'll adjust itself
- accordingly. (NNNNooootttteeee: VMS users will have to put
- quotes around this argument, and ----LLLL, like
- "----NNNN44445555"; VMS will otherwise convert it to
- lowercase.)
- ----hhhh _h_o_s_t_n_a_m_e Tells the client to query the Archie server
- _h_o_s_t_n_a_m_e.
- ----LLLL Lists the Archie servers known to the program
- when it was compiled, as well as the name of the
- default Archie server. For an up-to-date list,
- write to ``archie@archie.mcgill.ca'' (or any
- Archie server) with the single command of
- _s_e_r_v_e_r_s.
- ----VVVV With the verbose option, aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee will make some
- comments along the way if a search is going to
- take some time, to pacify the user.
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- The three search-modifying arguments (``-c'', ``-r'', and
- ``-s'') are all mutually exclusive; only the last one
- counts. If you specify ----eeee with any of ``-c'', ``-r'', or
- ``-s'', the server will first check for an exact match, then
- fall back to the case-sensitive, case-insensitive, or
- regular expression search. This is so if there are matches
- that are particularly obvious, it will take a minimal amount
- of time to satisfy your request.
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- If you list a single `-' by itself, any further arguments
- will be taken as part of the search string. This is
- intended to enable searching for strings that begin with a
- `-'; for example:
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- % aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee ----ssss ---- ----oooolllldddd
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- will search for all filenames that contain the string `-old'
- in them.
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- in a queued fashion. That is, smaller requests get served
- much more quickly than do large requests. As a result, the
- more often you query the Archie server, or the larger your
- requests, the longer the queue will become, resulting in a
- longer waiting period for everyone's requests. Please be
- frugal when possible, for your benefit as well as for the
- other users.
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- QQQQUUUUEEEERRRRYYYY PPPPRRRRIIIIOOOORRRRIIIITTTTYYYY
- Please use the ``-N'' option whenever you don't demand
- immediacy, or when you're requesting things that could
- generate large responses. Even when using the nice option,
- you should still try to avoid big jobs during busy periods.
- Here is a list of what we consider to be nice values that
- accurately reflect the priority of a job to the server.
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- NNNNoooorrrrmmmmaaaallll 0
- NNNNiiiicccceeee 500
- NNNNiiiicccceeeerrrr 1000
- VVVVeeeerrrryyyy NNNNiiiicccceeee 5000
- EEEExxxxttttrrrreeeemmmmeeeellllyyyy NNNNiiiicccceeee 10000
- NNNNiiiicccceeeesssstttt 32765
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- The last priority, NNNNiiiicccceeeesssstttt, would be used when a job should
- wait until the queue is essentially empty before running.
- You should pick one of these values to use, possibly
- modifying it slightly depending on where you think your
- priority should land. For example, 32760 would mean wait
- until the queue is empty, but jump ahead of other jobs that
- have selected NNNNiiiicccceeeesssstttt.
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- There are certain types of things that we suggest using
- NNNNiiiicccceeeesssstttt for, irregardless. In particular, any searches for
- which you would have a hard time justifying the use of
- anything but extra resources. (We all know what those
- searches would be for.)
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- EEEENNNNVVVVIIIIRRRROOOONNNNMMMMEEEENNNNTTTT
- ARCHIE_HOST
- This will change the host _a_r_c_h_i_e will consult when
- making queries. (The default value is what's been
- compiled in.) The ``-h'' option will override this.
- If you're running VMS, create a symbol called
- ARCHIE_HOST.
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- SSSSEEEEEEEE AAAALLLLSSSSOOOO
- For more information on regular expressions, see the manual
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- rrrreeeeggggeeeexxxx(3),,,, eeeedddd(1)
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- Also read the file aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee////ddddoooocccc////wwwwhhhhaaaattttiiiissss....aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee on
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- aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee....mmmmccccggggiiiillllllll....ccccaaaa for a detailed paper on Archie as a whole.
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- Read the file README.ALEX distributed with this client for
- more information on what Alex is and how you can take
- advantage of it.
- AAAAUUUUTTTTHHHHOOOORRRRSSSS
- The aaaarrrrcccchhhhiiiieeee service was conceived and implemented by Alan
- Emtage (bbbbaaaajjjjaaaannnn@@@@ccccssss....mmmmccccggggiiiillllllll....ccccaaaa), Peter Deutsch
- (ppppeeeetttteeeerrrrdddd@@@@ccccssss....mmmmccccggggiiiillllllll....ccccaaaa), and Bill Heelan
- (wwwwhhhheeeeeeeellllaaaannnn@@@@ccccssss....mmmmccccggggiiiillllllll....ccccaaaa). The entire Internet is in their
- debt.
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- The PPPPrrrroooossssppppeeeerrrroooo system was created by Clifford Neuman
- (bbbbccccnnnn@@@@iiiissssiiii....eeeedddduuuu); write to iiiinnnnffffoooo----pppprrrroooossssppppeeeerrrroooo@@@@iiiissssiiii....eeeedddduuuu for more
- information on the protocol and its use.
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- This stripped client was put together by Brendan Kehoe
- (bbbbrrrreeeennnnddddaaaannnn@@@@ccccyyyyggggnnnnuuuussss....ccccoooommmm), with modifications by Clifford Neuman
- and George Ferguson (ffffeeeerrrrgggguuuussssoooonnnn@@@@ccccssss....rrrroooocccchhhheeeesssstttteeeerrrr....eeeedddduuuu).
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