[gopher] FreeArchie

[Christoph Lohmann]

Hello.

R.A.Pavlov wrote:
> I have some other archie source, if this helps (archie-1.4.1.tar.gz). 
> Didn't try to compile it though.

It would be nice, if you could send me the file via private e-mail.


Regarding FreeArchie:

-------- Original Message --------
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:04:19 -0800
From: simple at sdf.lonestar.org
To: 20h at r-36.net
Subject: Fwd: Re: [gopher] FreeArchie

forwarding this as the gopher-project list seems to be broken... --jeff

-------- Original Message --------
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:25:30 -0800
From: Jeff W <simple at sdf.org>
To: gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [gopher] FreeArchie

Christoph Lohmann <20h at r-36.net> wrote:

> Does anyone on the list still have the FreeArchie[0] source
> lying around? The FTP server specified does not have the
> source anymore. It would be interesting to see how the search
> on the Internet really evolved.

Greetings Christoph,
Your post piqued my curiosity as pdx.edu is right here in Stumptown, so
I went looking for the allusive FreeArchie as well.  Not finding anything
ANYWHERE I sent an inquiry to "rootd" - aka Darrell Root - who promptly
replied:

  Subject: Re: FreeArchie Source Available?
  From: Darrell Root <******>
  Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:36:03 -0800

  FreeArchie was never implemented.  As part of a software engineering
  class in the first term we wrote the manual (which you may have found).
  But instead of doing an implementation in the 2nd term we all went
  and got jobs.

  Best regards and I salute you for know that there is more to the
  Internet than the world wide web ;-)

  Darrell

So basically FreeArchie was vaporware ;)

Regards,
Jeff Woodall