This Web page is an electronic companion to Chapter 8 of the book Learning to Use the Internet, by Ernest C. Ackermann . It contains links to the Internet resources, sites, and services mentioned in the chapter. Using this you can access them directly, without typing the long addresses or URLs for each item. Please send any comments, questions or suggestions to Ernest Ackermann. For orders or requests for examination copies contact the publisher at jimleisy@fbeedle.com.

Chapter 8 Archie: Locating Files to Retrieve by Anonymous FTP

Illustration by Karl Ackermann.

Archie servers accessible through Telnet. Start a telnet session with any of the following and use the login name archie.

Country 		Domain Name of Server 
Australia 		archie.au
Austria		 	archie.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at 
Austria		 	archie.univie.ac.at
Canada 			archie.cs.mcgill.ca 
Canada 			archie.uqam.ca 
Finland 		archie.funet.fi 
France 			archie.univ-rennes1.fr 
Germany 		archie.th-darmstadt.de 
Israel 			archie.ac.il 
Italy 			archie.unipi.it 
Japan 			archie.wide.ad.jp 
Korea 			archie.hana.nm.kr 
Korea 			archie.sogang.ac.kr 
Norway 			archie.uninett.no 
Spain 			archie.rediris.es 
Sweden 			archie.luth.se 
Switzerland 		archie.switch.ch 
Taiwan 			archie.nctuccca.edu.tw 
Taiwan 			archie.ncu.edu.tw 
United Kingdom 		archie.doc.ic.ac.uk 
United Kingdom 		archie.hensa.ac.uk 
USA (NE) 		archie.unl.edu 
USA (NJ) 		archie.internic.net 
USA (NJ) 		archie.rutgers.edu 
USA (NY) 		archie.ans.net 
USA (MD) 		archie.sura.net 

Example 8.1 Using Electronic mail for an Archie Search

Send e-mail to archie@archie.internic.net

Example 8.2 Using Telnet for an Archie Search

Start a Telnet session with archie.internic.net

Getting the necessary software to set up an Archie client

Use anonymous FTP to ftp.cs.mcgill.ca. The software is in the directory /pub/archie/clients .

Try Finger, WHOIS, and Archie Clients at www.windows95.com for an Archie cleint for Windows 95.

Virtual Table of Contents for Learning to Use the Internet

Some other places you may want to visit

Learning to Use the Internet	Learning to Use the World Wide Web	Searching and Researching on the World Wide Web

FROM the fortune list ...

The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever. - John Seabrook.