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. -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask] (internet) kacovert@miavx1 (bitnet)