[Gllug] Find in FTP ?

[Alan Peery]

This service is still around, but it has mutated.  If you use Download 
Accelerator Plus, there is an option that allows it to search for ftp 
files.  The goal is to find a ftp mirror near you, based on the response 
you get from it.

Alan



Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

>On Tue 12 Nov, Jason Clifford bloviated thus:
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>>Alterntively you could write a script that connects and recursively grabs 
>>a listing so you can search that listing locally. Maybe one of the mirror 
>>scripts already has something like this available.
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>If it's a public FTP site, try archie (if that still exists) which was
>a search engine for FTP back in the dim dark primordial ooze of the
>net pre-web.  When men were men and routers were nervous.
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>Alternately, you could probably get archie to run yourself...
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