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Date:      18 Apr 1997 08:13:34 +0200
From:      Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Searching archives
Message-ID:  <87afmwvoxd.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co's message of Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:28:57 -0500 (EST)
References:  <Pine.A41.3.95.970417162552.20318A-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>

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pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co writes:

> Howdy,
> I want to port SlingShot, it provides cut and past support to Xview. It's
> supposed to be in ftp.x.org, but I didn't find it there.
> What are the preferred methods of searching ftp sites? archie rarely
> returns something of value, and this Altavista and Lycos end up returning
> irrelevant information.

I've had good results with `archie -h ftpsearch.ntnu.no' lately.

FWIW, I remember having ported SlingShot in the 386BSD days. Maybe I
can dig up the patches. 

tg



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