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From: User RdkeysR.D. Keys <rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How does one find the various unix ftp archives?
Date: 11 Jul 1997 14:53:13 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
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I need to find some odd sources to port to my FreeBSD box.  I have been
trying to use archie, and archie.sura.net is broken, and the other archie
servers seem out of date or don't make good hits.

1.  Is there a better way to do searches for unix archives than archie?
    Xarchie is pretty good, but rather cumbersome.

2.  Anyone have a list of ftp sites that handle unix sources (or the old
    comp.sources.unix materials)?  I remember there being one that got
    posted occasionally, a few years back, but I have not seen one lately.

3.  Anyone have the trn sources for FreeBSD?  They seem to have been replaced
    by tin, but I would like to get trn up if I can, since it seems to require
    less keystroking than tin.

Thanks....

Bob Keys
rdkeys@seedlab3.cropsci.ncsu.edu