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From: liebe@sun2 (Andreas Liebe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Archie Timed out (dirsend)
Date: 15 Aug 1994 09:57:59 GMT
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Noel Chong (noel@acsserv1) wrote:
: I installed xarchie on a SunOS 4.1.3 system with no
: problems (it works).  Archie however complains as follows:

: archie failed: Timed out (dirsend)

: to any and all queries.  The ver number is 1.3
: and it was updated 01/09/92.

You should consider upgrading to 2.0.10. The old (1.3) version worked
pretty well for years but has problems talking to the new version 3
archies. I think there was a patch for xarchie 1.3, too, but why bother ?

	-Andreas

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