CMSY129 Principles of the Internet
Archie, Jughead, and Veronica
Archie is a database of FTP sites. Archie servers gather millions of public files from all over the world and index them. You use Archie to search by program name, it returns FTP site addresses and paths. The system currently maintains an Internet Archives Database containing the names of more than 2 million files at more than 1,000 anonymous FTP sites. Archie also maintains a Software Description Database with names and descriptions of all software applications, documents, and data sets at anonymous FTP sites.
Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computer Archives) is a server program that maintains an index of titles of Gopher items from Gopher servers. It provides a quick and easy way to search Gopher by keyword. It searches through millions of Gopher menu items, collects what it finds, and returns an index of combined menus. Veronica is valuable because the Internet has no central table of contents or comprehensive listing of documents. No one person, organization or computer controls the Internet, and all the resources on the Net are widely spread out throughout the world. Veronica is limited in that it only searches Gopher menu items and not the entire files themselves.
Jughead (Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display) is basically a Veronica-type search facility, but it can only search its local Gopher server.
To do an Archie or Veronica search, you'll need to access a Unix server with Gopher access. Your ISP may provide you with a shell account, which will let you use its Unix server for these kinds of searches. You will need to use Telnet to access the shell account.
As far as I know, there's no Gopher utility called Betty.