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From: hela.iti.org!widener!news@uunet.uu.net  (Brendan Kehoe)
Organization: Widener University Computer Science Dept, Chester PA
Subject: Announcing Archie 1.2
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 This is the official release of Archie 1.2, a stand-alone client to
access the Archie FTP database.  It's intended to help reduce the
interactive use of the archie server by providing a comfortable,
accessible, and faster method of query.

 Changes since version 1.1 include:

	* much more portable; now runs under VMS (with Multinet & Wallongong
	  TCP/IP), MSDOS and OS/2 (with PC/TCP), and countless versions of Unix
	* faster and cleaner code (those in the US will notice a marked
	  difference in response time by using the default of ARCHIE.SURA.NET
	  for their server; 1.1 used quiche)
	* dirsend.c totally rewritten by George Ferguson
	* bug fixes
	* (hopefully) clearer man page
	* handles Prospero warnings
	* builds with gcc on sparcs properly
	* mentions available servers

 There are now a goodly number of servers available, so no one system
will get hit with the world's use.  They are (as of 11/20/91):

        archie.sura.net (USA, Mexico, etc)
        archie.mcgill.ca (Canada)
        archie.funet.fi (Finland/Mainland Europe)
        archie.au (Australia/New Zealand)
        archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (Great Britain/Ireland)

 The package is available in the comp.sources.misc and vmsnet.sources
newsgroups (and, later, their archives), or via anonymous FTP from:

	* ftp.cs.widener.edu [147.31.254.132] as pub/archie.tar.Z (unix)
	  or archie-vms.com (VMS DCL .com file)
	* cs.rochester.edu [192.5.53.209] as pub/archie-1.2.tar.Z
	* ftp.huji.ac.il [132.65.6.5] as pub/archie-clients/c-archie.tar.Z
	  (for Israeli sites mainly)

 Please report any comments, suggestions, fixes, (whether positive or negative)
to brendan@cs.widener.edu.  Enjoy!

--
Brendan Kehoe, Widener University, Chester, PA
-- 
Brendan Kehoe, Sun Network Manager                      brendan@cs.widener.edu
Widener University                                                 Chester, PA
  You know something's off when a vendor, in an attempt to show off his latest
        powerful box, has demos galore---like Emacs doing the Towers of Hanoi.