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Now this DOES bring on the nostalgia... :-)

I recall there used to be a veronica too (Very Easy Rodent Oriented Network something or the other....), then a jughead too ...

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I remember using the UI through telnet archie.mcgill.ca. It showed percent progress. The location used a 32-bit signed int. When the archive exceeded 2GB, the percentage became a negative count to 0% rather than count-up to 100%.

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