On 16 Jun 00, at 10:08, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> How does the "ftp search" part happen? Does the app know of the most
> popular FTP sites and its mirrors? Or do you have to feed it a mirror
> list? Say, I want to download some piece of software that is not well
> known but is present in a few mirrors around the world. How does the app
> know what the mirros are?
It does this via lycos ftp search..I checked with the developers
because I was simply impressed by the way it works...if it cannot
acess the trondheim engine, it has a fallback option, I am not sure
what it is..I'll scekc and say later.
> Does the app use an open standard like archie? archie, unfortunately,
> seems to be little used.
Alas..I lked gopher a bit...to get lots of etexts:-)
===================================
Sthitaprajna
@mailandnews.com
===================================
Life is pain, Highness.
Anyone who says differently is selling something
- Westley of "The Princess Bride"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help
people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your
messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to
submit messages can and will be revoked.
