In article <1994Jul19.014415.27207@miavx1>, [log in to unmask]
(Michael Jones) writes:
> Kent Covert ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> : In article <1994Jun27.010129.26588@miavx1>, [log in to unmask]
(Svidrigailov) writes:
> : >         Is arhcie going to be ported to the "new vax" a.k.a. OCEAN?
>
> : The archie client on the old system was provided as part of the MCUG
> : libraries.  I'm not sure what the current state of porting it to the Alpha
> : are.  (Mike, can you give us an update?)
>
> Archie has now been ported to the Alpha and placed back in the MCUG
> Libraries.  It works the same as it did on the old VAX.  Email MCUG_MGR
> if you have difficulties or problems using it.
>
> Note:  Archie is currently pointing archie.internic.net.  At the time I
> ported the archie client, this seemed to be the quickest response site.
> However, different sites can return different results so you may want to
> try another site (using -h) if your first archie search fails.  There is
> a current lists of sites available that can be viewed by typing:
>       archie -"L"
> The quotes are necessary.
>
> Note2:  I was playing with the PIPE command to experiment with piping the
> results to a file and found it to give inconsistant results, so I recommend
> not using PIPE with archie.  If you want to save the results in a file, I
> recommend following this example:
>       DEFINE SYS$OUTPUT RESULTS.TXT
>       ARCHIE -S LINUX
>       DEASSIGN SYS$OUTPUT
> The file results.txt will then contain your output.  (replace LINUX with
> whatever your searching for).  If you have trouble with the above, email
> me.  (P.S.  The DEASSIGN command is very important!  Don't forget it!)
 
There's a shortcut to what's listed above.  The following should accomplish
the same thing:
    DEFINE/USER SYS$OUTPUT RESULTS.TXT
    ARCHIE -S LINUX
The /USER qualifier specifies that the logical only exist for the next
program's execution.
 
As to using pipes, the following seemed to work for me:
    PIPE ARCHIE -S LINUX > RESULTS.TXT
It did time out on me a couple of times.  I don't know if that was a
problem with PIPE or with ARCHIE, though.
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
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