Archie is a program designed to search the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers for a topic of your choice. Archie program is accessable through a shell account (your UNIX machine) and also from WWW through a more user friendly interface.
The GUI Archie is available at GUI Archie
You could access Archie from your UNIX machine as follows. Type What's in boldface.
rvcc>archie internet
The above statement invokes Archie program and would search the available FTP servers for the topic "internet". Your screen display should give the ftp host address and the path name, for each hit.
The above search could be done with additional options as listed below:
-c : case sensitive substring search -e : exact string match (default) -r : regular expression search -s : case insensitive substring search -l : list one match per line -t : sort inverted by date -m hits : specifies maximum number of hits to return (default 95) -o filename : specifies file to store results in -h host : specifies server host -L : list known servers and current default -N level : specifies query niceness level (0-35765)
For example, if you would like to search for the topic internet and save the search results in a file named lab12, your command would be as follows:
rvcc>archie - o lab12 internet
Similarly, if you wish to format the search results displayed line by line on the screen, you would type:
rvcc>archie -l internet
archie.au 139.130.23.2 Australia archie.univie.ac.at 131.130.1.23 Austria archie.belnet.be 193.190.198.2 Belgium archie.bunyip.com 192.77.55.5 Canada archie.cs.mcgill.ca 132.206.51.250 Canada archie.funet.fi 128.214.248.46 Finland archie.th-darmstadt.de 130.83.22.1 Germany archie.ac.il 132.65.208.15 Israel archie.unipi.it 131.114.21.15 Italy archie.wide.ad.jp 133.4.3.6 Japan archie.kornet.nm.kr 168.126.63.10 Korea archie.sogang.ac.kr 163.239.1.11 Korea archie.nz 140.200.128.20 New Zealand archie.icm.edu.pl 148.81.209.5 Poland archie.rediris.es 130.206.1.5 Spain archie.luth.se 130.240.12.23 Sweden archie.switch.ch 193.5.24.1 Switzerland archie.ncu.edu.tw 192.83.166.12 Taiwan archie.doc.ic.ac.uk 193.63.255.1 UK archie.hensa.ac.uk 129.12.200.130 UK archie.internic.net 198.49.45.10 USA (NJ) archie.internic.net 204.159.111.101 USA (VA) archie.internic.net 204.179.186.65 USA (NJ) archie.rutgers.edu 128.6.21.13 USA (NJ)