Access to software, archie servers
Greetings all-
I've noticed that quite a few requests for sites to FTP various
software packages have appeared on CHEMISTRY in recent months. I thought
I would mention an alternate route to locate such sites, namely the ARCHIE
servers. Many of us may already know about this useful service, but for
those who don't, I've detailed below the location of the ARCHIE servers
and the basics of using them.
ARCHIE is a shortened version of "ARCHIvE" and is a continuously
updated
database of about 900 FTP'able sites for innumerable software items and
files. Telnet on to any of the (identical database) ARCHIE sites, as follows:
quiche.cs.mcgill.ca 132.206.2.3 (The original; often slow and busy)
archie.sura.net 128.167.254.179 (nic.sura.net)
archie.rutgers.edu 128.6.18.15 (dorm.rutgers.edu)
archie.ans.edu 147.225.1.2 (nis.ans.net)
Login as ARCHIE, and no password is required. The two most useful commands
are WHATIS (e.g., whatis protein) and PROG (e.g. prog ampac). WHATIS locates
software by subject, and PROG locates software by FTP site. Ultimately you
will need to use PROG to find one (usually of many) possible FTP addresses.
To end type BYE, QUIT, etc.
For international netters, ARCHIE is available at the following sites:
archie.funet.fi 128.214.6.100 (Europe, not including the UK)
archie.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.3.7 (puffin.doc.ic.ac.uk, UK)
archie.au 128.184.1.4 (rana.cc.deakin.oz.au, Australia)
I hope this information is useful to many of you. Cheers.
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