Download/HomepageSome readers of this review may have checked on
to the Internet recently and not be familiar with Archie. Archie
is a search engine that searches indexes of files available from
multitudes of FTP sites around the world. fpArchie is an Internet
client that runs on your computer and uses the Archie Server of
your choice from a built in server list to search for the files
you want.
Windows 95 is shipped with a find utility I use all the time to
find files I have misplaced on my system. The screen interface to
fpArchie follows a similar metaphor. You enter the name of the
file you want to find and available options to tell fpArchie
where to look. You can limit the search to the United States or
Finland or MIT. You can also choose to search on part of a file
name or require an exact match or case sensitivity or search
using a regular expression. Once you've made your choices,
fpArchie A start up routine makes installation a snap but there
are a couple of rough edges. First this is a beta and there is no
help. Second, not all the built in archie servers function. Thee
next release will not be a beta and the authors promise a help
system.
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