[2339] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xarchie
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kkkken@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sat Dec 14 20:06:22 1991
From: kkkken@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: qwalker@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 14 Dec 91 03:50:41 -0500.
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 91 20:05:38 EST
Hello, I'm writing in response to your recent message to bug-sipb:
>> I don't exactly have a bug report, but I have an extremely large file
>> called xarchie which allows someone to find any program on the ftp
>> network, however, the file is over 1 meg in size and I would like to
>> give it to you so that it may be placed in a locker for all of
>> Athena. Currently, I have compiled it for the RTs and i still
>> have the orginal files.
We actually already support archie, but not the X version; instead, we
support a version written in perl (/usr/sipb/$bindir/archie), which is
18k and runs on all four platforms... (this is a big advantage over a
version than is around a megabyte on each of the four platforms!) As
we are trying to migrate much of our software to the RS-6000's, disk
space is a concern. I am personally not enthusiastic about installing
the X version of archie, but maybe someone else will want to.
Thanks for letting us know, though!
Kenneth J. Duda
MIT Network Services
Member, Student Information Processing Board
<kkkken@mit.edu>
