26 What are Veronica and Archie?
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This article is from the Amiga Networking FAQ, by Richard Norman with numerous contributions by others.
26 What are Veronica and Archie?
Archie is the older of the two search tools. A user submits a query to Archie or Veronica and they search their database for the location of files or programs. Veronica is associated with the Gopher servers.
Both require TCP/IP at some point. Although both can be queried by electronic mail.
There is an Archie client available for AmiTCP via anonymous FTP from ftp.demon.co.uk in the /pub/amiga/amitcp directory.
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