2.8 What is Archie?

Archie is a protocol for finding files on the internet. This is accomplished through several servers dedicated to this task. in a nutshell, you may ask your archie client for a specific file, and it will find out where you can download it from. Note that archie will not work well with generic searches: for example, you will not have much luck searching for "archivers", but if you searched for "lha", you might have a better chance of finding what you want. It is best to search on the filename, rather than on what the file does.

2.81 Using AmFTP's Built-In Archie Client

The AmFTP Archie window is opened by selecting the Archie button from the main interface.

Here you may select a search site by typing it into the Archie Searchsite text gadget, or by using the cycle gadget at the right of the text input to select an already existing entry.

Next you can enter the search specifications in the search fortext input gadget. You should be as specific as possible here, as Archie is not very good at finding files with a very generic filespec.

Once this is done, just click the search gadget to begin the search. AmFTP will connect to the site and find anything matching the search specifications.

After a while you should get a list of files that AmFTP has found that match the search pattern. now you can click on Add as Profile gadget at the bottom, and the profile will be added to the connection profiles list, including the directory. just exit this window and choose the connect gadget, and then choose the profile you just added, and you will find the file you were looking for.

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