[gopher] FreeArchie

[Nick Matavka]

On 1 February 2012 23:47, danny <danny at missing.com> wrote:
> I received an email from Alan Emtage yesterday regarding the actual
> sources to the commercial version from many years ago.  He has recently
> sent a tape with the sources to the computer history museum in San Jose to
> see if they can be read.
>
> Sounds very likely we may get to have a peek at the commercial version
> source if it can be read (He still holds the rights)
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> danny wrote:
>>> You had to remind me of that - ARRGH!! lol
>>>
>>> I have it somewhere around here (ran it at missing years ago).  I will
>>> roll through a few boxes and see if I can find it (it's either on one of
>>> the OG Sparcstations, Tatung, or Solbourne boxes).  How fast do you need
>>> it?  May take me a bit to spool some of these old boxes back up.
>>
>> My request is for historical reasons. It doesn't hurry, but
>> if the source is public, then it may be archived for further
>> generations.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Christoph Lohmann
>>
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I know I might sound like a total idiot, but since there is basically
only one server that runs Archie on the entire internet, suppose one
wishes to look for a file and doesn't know which FTP server has it.
What does one do to locate this file today?

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