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  If you like Alex and want to use it regularly please find, or set up,
  an Alex fileserver at/near your site.

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 Documentation:

  ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/www/alex.html
  ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/doc/intro.ps
  ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/doc/NIR.Tool
  ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/doc/alex.post

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 Bibliography:

  @InProceedings{cate:alex,
  author =      "Vincent Cate",
  title =       "Alex - a Global Filesystem",
  booktitle =   "Proceedings of the Usenix File Systems Workshop",
  year =        1992,
  pages =       "1--11",
  month =       may,
  place =       "Ann Arbor, MI",
  keyword =     "distributed file system, wide-area file system"

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 Other Information:

  FTP to alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu and "cd to doc".  Get the "README" or
  anything else there.  A current version of this document may be there
  and called "NIR.Tool".  In Alex this file is named
  "/alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/doc/NIR.Tool".

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 ARCHIE

 Date template updated or checked:       1 March, 1994
 By: Name:                               Peter Deutsch
     Email address:                      [e-mail]

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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



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      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.
      Internally, the archie system now supports a WAIS search engine
      and frontends for Gopher, WWW and WHOIS++ for accessing archie
      information through Gopher clients is now being tested.
      Additional collections of information to be served by the archie
      software will be announced.

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 Primary Contact(s):

  Name:                   Archie Group, Bunyip Information Systems Inc.

  Email address:          [e-mail]

  Postal  Address:        Bunyip Information Systems Inc.,
                          310 St-Catherine St. West, suite 202,
                          Montreal, QC
                          CANADA H2X 2A1

  Telephone:              [phone]
  Fax:                    [phone]

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 Help Line:       for archie server system and telnet client




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  Name:           Archie Group, Bunyip Information Systems Inc.

  Email address:  [e-mail]

  Telephone:      [phone]


  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:

  IETF, IIIR, WNILS, URI.

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 Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:

  Bunyip Information Systems Inc.

  Funded by licensing of archie software and development contracts from
  sponsors.  Additional information services based upon this software
  are now being tested.

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 Mailing Lists:

  Address:              [e-mail]

  Administration:       [e-mail]

  Description:




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   This mailing list is for people interested in the archie project and
   its future developments.  Announcements of upgrades, new services,
   etc. are made to this list.

  Archive:              none

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  Address:              [e-mail]

  Administration:       [e-mail]

  Description:

   This mailing list is for people who operate and maintain archie
   servers.  Announcements 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:              [e-mail]

  Administration:       [e-mail]

  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







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  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.







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   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,