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 ARCHIE     
 
 
 Date template updated or checked:       22 March, 1993 
 By: Name:                               Peter Deutsch 
    Email address:                      peterd@bunyip.com 
 
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 NIR Tool Name:                  archie 
 
 Brief Description of Tool: 
 
 
  The archie system is a tool for gathering, indexing and serving 
  information from around the Internet.  The current version serves a 
  collection of filenames found at anonymous FTP sites, as well as a 
  smaller collection of text descriptions for software, data and other 
  information found at anonymous FTP archives.  Additional databases are 
  under development. 
 
  User's View: 
 
  Users run a client program to connect to an archie server and issue 
  search commands to find information in an archie database.  In the 
  case of an anonymous FTP filename, this information can then be used 
  to fetch the file directly from the archive site using the `ftp' 
  command.  To the user, archie could be seen as a `secondary source' of 
  information which, because of the high cost of locating and serving, 
  would not otherwise be available. 
 
  The user searches the archie databases through either a telnet session 
  to a machine running an archie server, or by using a stand-alone 
  client program (which uses the Prospero protocol for sending and 
  receiving requests).  There is also an email interface which allows 
  users to send and receive search requests via electronic mail. 
 
  Freely available archie clients exist for most operating systems and 
  can be fetched using anonymous FTP from most of the current archie 
  servers.  There are also gateways to the archie system from many other 
  NIR tools, including Gopher, WAIS and WWW.  An X.500 interface to 
  archie is currently under development. 
 
  Information Provider's View: 
 
  There are two types of information providers who would be interested 
  in archie.  Primary information providers are interested in having a 
  summary of the information provided by their service tracked by an 
  archie server.  Secondary service providers, or those sites wishing to 
  provide a "value-added" service for the Internet can elect to run an 
  archie server at their site to provide a useful service to users, to 
  raise the profile of their institution on the Internet, or to provide 
  market differentiation (for commercial service providers). 
 
  The archie system is of particular utility serving information where 
  there are many sites to be searched and/or where the cost of searching 
  each site is high. 
 
  For example, there are currently over 1,200 anonymous FTP sites on the 
  Internet, and the number continues to grow.  Searching for a specific 
  filename at a single site may involve scanning hundreds, or even 
  thousands of filenames.  Thus, most operators of anonymous FTP 
  archives welcome the fact that archie indexes and serves the names of 
  all files available from each site tracked. 
 
  Information Types Supported: 
 
  The archie system allows the gathering and serving of arbitrary 
  information types, although the current system serves only freeform 
  text and a dedicated text format for filename listings.  WAIS support 
  is provided in the most recent release and it is expected that 
  additional collections of information will be maintained and served 
  using WAIS tools for access in the near future. 
 
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 Primary Contact(s): 
 
  Name:                   Archie Group, Bunyip Information Systems Inc. 
 
  Email address:          info@bunyip.com 
 
  Postal  Address:        Bunyip Information Systems Inc., 
                          310 St-Catherine St. West, suite 202, 
                          Montreal, QC 
                          CANADA H2X 2A1 
 
  Telephone:              1 (514) 875-8611 
  Fax:                    1 (514) 875-8134 
 
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 Help Line:       for archie server system and telnet client 
 
  Name:           Archie Group, Bunyip Information Systems Inc. 
 
  Email address:  info@bunyip.com 
 
  Telephone:      1 (514) 875-8611 
 
 
           Level of support offered: 
                o commercial support for server 
                  (primarily for systems maintainers) 
 
                o voluntary helpdesk support for freeware clients 
 
                o volunteer helpdesk support for Internet information 
                  gathering tools in general 
 
 
  Hours available:        - server system: 
                           email:                24 hour support 
                           phone support:        9-5 EST 
 
                         - helpdesk consultation: as time permits 
 
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 Related Working Groups:  
 
     Prospero, WAIS, WWW, Gopher. 
 
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 Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source: 
 
          Bunyip Information Systems Inc. 
 
          Funded by licensing of archie software and 
          development contracts from sponsors.  Donations 
          to help fund helpdesk and operation of free 
          servers gratefully accepted. 
 
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 Mailing Lists: 
 
 Address:                archie-people@bunyip.com 
 
 Administration:         archie-people-request@bunyip.com 
 
 Description: 
 
  This mailing list is for people interested in the archie project and 
  its future developments.  Announcments of upgrades, new services, etc 
  are made to this list. 
 
 
 Archive:                none 
 
 
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 Address:                archie-maint@bunyip.com 
 
 Administration:         archie-maint-request@bunyip.com 
 
 Description: 
 
  This mailing list is for people who operate and maintain archie 
  servers.  Announcments of bug fixes, new releases and discussion of 
  new features are carried out on this list. 
 
 
 Archive:                "archives.cc.mcgill.ca:/pub/mailing-lists/archie-maint" 
 
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 Address:                iafa@bunyip.com 
 
 Administration:         iafa-request@bunyip.com 
 
 Description: 
 
  This mailing list is for people who are involved in the Internet 
  Anonymous FTP Archives Working Group of the IETF.  This group was 
  involved in standardizing the encoding of information at anonymous FTP 
  archives and thus is of interest to operators and users of the archie 
  system. It came to completion in November, 1992 and produced two  
documents 
  which have been presented to the IETF as informational RFCs. 
 
 
 Archive:                "archives.cc.mcgill.ca:/pub/mailing-lists/iafa" 
 
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 News groups: 
 
 Name:           comp.archives.admin 
 
 Description:           
 
  This newsgroup is for operators and maintainers of Internet archives. 
  Announcements and discussions of issues related to archie are 
  presented here, as well as discussions of more general issues relating 
  to archiving and Internet services. 
 
 Archive:                not known 
 
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 Name:           alt.internet.services 
 
 Description:           
 
  This newsgroup is for people interested in Internet-related services, 
  with a focus at the user level.  Announcements and discussions of 
  issues related to archie are presented here, as well as discussions of 
  more general issues relating to Internet services. 
 
 Archive:                not known 
 
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 Protocols: 
 
 What is supported: 
 
  The current archie system clients use the Prospero protocol for 
  communication with the search engine on the archie server.  Freely 
  available clients are available which include source to perform this 
  communication for those wishing to implement additional clients. 
 
  The archie server is capable of building arbitrary databases, using 
  arbitrary search and access engines and the current release ships with 
  the public domain implementation of WAIS.  We expect future archie 
  servers to serve information using this protocol.  The current server 
  system assumes the TCP/IP protocol suite is available, and in 
  particular the ftp protocol for data gathering. 
 
  The archie system can be accessed through systems operating the 
  Gopher, WAIS and WWW (HDDL) protocols.  A gateway from the X.500 
  system is under development. 
 
 What it runs over:       
 
  The Prospero protocol implementation runs over its own implementation 
  of a reliable datagram protocol based upon UDP.  Data gathering runs 
  over the TCP/IP protocol suite. 
 
 Other NIR tools this interworks with: 
 
  Prospero, Gopher, WAIS, WWW. 
 
 
 Future plans: 
 
  The archie system became a commercial product in October, 1992, 
  marketed by Bunyip Information Systems Inc.  The company plans to 
  market additional data gathering modules to allow the server code to 
  build additional types of databases.  Work is also underway to 
  integrate extensions to WHOIS to allow the building and maintaining 
  White Pages (names) directories.  The company is also working on other 
  Internet information tools that will work with the archie system. 
 
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 Servers: 
 
 Date completed or updated:      22 March, 1993 
 By: Name:                       Peter Deutsch 
 Email address:                  peterd@bunyip.com 
 
 Platform:               Sun SPARC running SunOS 4.1 or later. 
                        IBM RS6000 running AIX version 3.2 or later. 
                        for additional UNIX platforms, contact  
                        Bunyip Information Systems details. 
 
 Primary Contact: 
 Name:                   Alan Emtage 
 Email address:          bajan@bunyip.com 
 Telephone:              1 (514) 398-8611 
 
 Server software available from: 
                         Bunyip Information Systems Inc. 
                 email:  info@bunyip.com 
 
 Location of more information: 
 
  Additional information on the archie product line is available from the 
  anonymous ftp archive on "archie.ans.net".. 
 
 Latest version number:          archie 3.0 
 
 
 Brief Scope and Characteristics: 
 
  This is the first commercial inmplementation of the archie system, 
  replacing a version done as a Masters project at McGill University 
  during the period 1990-1992.  It comes with an archie telnet client 
  that offers a number of minor improvements over earlier versions. 
  Additional releases, with a number of additional improvements, are 
  planned in the coming months. 
 
 Approximate number of such servers in use:      Currently about 20 (not all 
                                                 are publicly available) 
 
 General comments: 
 
  Most users access archie through a freeware or public domain client 
  program.  These are available from most archie servers via anonymous 
  FTP.  Additional client functionality has been incorporated into the 
  server and will be available once the next version of the Prospero 
  protocol is frozen and the features become incorporated into the 
  clients in the next few months.  Check out the archie directory on 
  "bunyip.com" or the banner message when logging into any of the archie 
  telnet clients for more details. 
 
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 Clients: 
 
 Date completed or updated:      22 March, 1993 
 By: Name:                       Peter Deutsch 
 Email address:                  peterd@bunyip.com 
 
 Platform:                       command line shell, written in C. Works with 
                                 both UNIX and MSDOS/OS2 shells. 
 
 Primary Contact: 
   Name:                         Brendan Kehoe 
   Email address:                brendan@cygnus.com 
   Telephone:                    not known 
 
 Client software available from: most archie server hosts and major 
                                 Internet archives. Look for filename 
                                 "c-archie-1.3.2.tar.Z". 
                                
 Location of more information:   Packaged with software. 
 
 Latest version number:          1.3.2 
 
 Brief Scope and Characteristics: 
 
  This program provides a simple command line interface to the archie 
  server system, using the Prospero protocol.  Written in C, it has been 
  ported to MSDOS and OS2. 
 
 General comments: 
 
  This program should not be confused with the archie system telnet 
  interface, which is a program that runs on the archie server itself. 
 
 Future plans: 
 
                                Not known 
 
 
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 Date completed or updated:      22 March, 1993 
 By: Name:                       Peter Deutsch 
 Email address:                  peterd@bunyip.com 
 
 Platform:                       command line shell, written in Perl. Works 
                                 with both UNIX and MSDOS/OS2 shells. 
 
 Primary Contact: 
    Name:                        Khun Yee Fung 
    Email address:               clipper@csd.uwo.ca 
    Telephone:                   not known 
 
 Client software available from: most archie server hosts and major 
                                 Internet archives. Look for filename 
                                 "perl-archie-3.8.tar.Z". 
                                
 
 Location of more information:   Packaged with software. 
 
 Latest version number:          3.8 
 
 Brief Scope and Characteristics: 
 
  This program provides a simple command line interface to the archie 
  server system, using the Prospero protocol.  Written in Perl. 
 
 General comments: 
 
  This program should notbe confused with the archie system telnet 
  interface, which is a program that runs on the archie server itself. 
 
 Future plans: 
 
                                Not known 
 
 
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 Date completed or updated:      22 March, 1993 
 By: Name:                       Peter Deutsch 
 Email address:                  peterd@bunyip.com 
 
 Platform:                       archie client program for VMS systems. 
 
 
 Primary Contact: 
    Name:                        Brendan Kehoe 
    Email address:               brendan@cygnus.com 
    Telephone:                   not known 
 
 Client software available from: most archie server hosts and major 
                                 Internet archives. Look for filename 
                                 "archie-vms.com". 
                                 
 Location of more information:   Packaged with software. 
 
 Latest version number:          not known. 
 
 Brief Scope and Characteristics: 
 
  This program provides a simple command line interface to the archie 
  server system for users of VMS. 
 
 General comments: 
 
  This program should not be confused with the archie system telnet 
  interface, which is a program that runs on the archie server itself. 
 
 Future plans: 
 
                                Not known 
 
 
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 Date completed or updated:      22 March, 1993 
 By: Name:                       Peter Deutsch 
 Email address:                  peterd@bunyip.com 
 
 Platform:                       Xwindows client (X11R4) 
 
 Primary Contact: 
    Name:                        George Ferguson 
    Email address:               ferguson@cs.rochester.edu 
    Telephone:                   not known 
 
 Client software available from: cs.rochester.edu, most archie server hosts 
                                 and major Internet archives. Look for file 
                                 "xarchie-1.3.tar.Z". 
 
 Location of more information:   Packaged with software. 
 
 Latest version number:          xarchie-1.3 
 
 Brief Scope and Characteristics: 
 
  This program provides an Xwindows client that allows users to search 
  the archie anonymous FTP database.  Also included is the capability of 
  fetching files (using ftp). 
 
 General comments:               none. 
 
 Future plans: 
 
                                Not known 
 
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 Date completed or updated:      22 March, 1993 
 By: Name:                       Peter Deutsch 
 Email address:                  peterd@bunyip.com 
 
 Platform:                       NeXTStep client. 
 
 Primary Contact: 
    Name:                        Scott Stark 
    Email address:               me@superc.che.udel.edu 
    Telephone:                   not known 
 
 
 Client software available from: most archie server hosts and major 
                                 Internet archives. Look for file 
                                 "NeXTArchie.tar.Z". 
                                 
 
 Location of more information:   Packaged with software. 
 
 Latest version number:           
 
 Brief Scope and Characteristics: 
 
  This program provides a NeXTStep client that allows users to search 
  the archie anonymous FTP database.  Also included is the capability of 
  fetching files (using ftp). 
 
 General comments:               none. 
 
 Future plans: 
 
                                Not known 
 
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 Demonstration sites : 
 
 Site name:      any one of: 
 
    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) 
 
 Client software should be supported at all of these sites. 
 
 
 Access details: 
                - telnet to any of the above sites 
                - login as user `archie' 
                - type `help' at the prompt to get started. 
 
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 Documentation: 
 
  Document Title:         What is archie 
  Location details:       anonymous FTP from archie.ans.net 
  Site:                   bunyip.com 
  Full file name:         "pub/archie/doc/whatis.archie" 
  Description:            Brief overview of the archie system. 
 
  Document Title:         archie man pages 
  Location details:       anonymous FTP from archie.ans.net 
  Site:                   bunyip.com 
  Full file name:         "pub/archie/doc/archie.man.*" 
  Description:            Manual pages for the archie system telnet 
                          interface in various formats (raw ASCII, nroff, 
                          compressed, etc). This document also explains the 
                          various search options and other features, so is of 
                          use to users of the other archie client programs. 
 
  Document Title:         What's New in 3.0 
  Location details:       anonymous FTP from archie.ans.net 
  Site:                   bunyip.com 
  Full file name:         "pub/archie/doc/whats.new" 
  Description:            Description of the changes to archie for the 
                          first commercial release 
 
 
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 Other Information: 
 
   To come after some deliberation... 
