Gopher, FTP engines

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Archie [AR]
Finger [FG]
FTPSearch95 [FT]
Jughead [JU]
NetFind [NF]
Veronica [VE]
Whois [WS]

Archie [AR]
"Rutgers University Network Services. Archie locates files, usually software, available for public FTP access. Archie is not a generic tool for finding things on the Web. Vague, general Search Strings, such as "binary", "jpeg", "WWW", etc., will not work. If you are not searching a specific file, please try a different service, such as The Virtual Library or Yahoo. Thanks. Archie is a very popular service, and frequently becomes overloaded. If your search fails or times out, try the following: Read the note above. Archie will not find WWW files, nor will it search for general types of files, such as JPEG images."

Netfind [NF]
"Search Netfind for E-mail addresses. How to Use the Gopher to Netfind Gateway. This Gopher gateway performs Netfind searches. It uses the go4gw software. To use this gateway supply keywords for a Netfind search. A list of matching domains will be returned as documents. Choose from one of the domains to retrieve the results from a Netfind search for that domain. Due to the strict query format for Netfind, keywords must be in the format: name key key... For example, to find information about Darren Hardy at the University of Colorado in Boulder, use the keywords 'hardy boulder colorado' or 'hardy boulder colorado computer science'..

Finger [FG]
"Enter the arguments for finger. Arguments should be in one of these formats: machinename, username@machinename"
...if you enter an e-mail address you get some info

Jughead [JU]
"gopher://logic.uc.wlu.edu:3002/7 Gopher Search. This is a searchable Gopher index. Use the search function of your browser to enter search terms."

Veronica [VE]

Whois [WS]

"IntelliNet WHOIS Query Server.
This service is down for now. Sorry, look for it to be back soon!"

FTPSearch95 [FT]
"FTP search v3.2. This server is located in Trondheim, Norway"

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