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arch on ambient

A conversational introduction to arch

Me:Arch archives have names. My archive's name is wingo@pobox.com--2004-main. Say hi to wingo@pobox.com--2004-main!
You:Hi, wingo@pobox.com--2004-main...
Archive:Hi, nice to meet you.
Me:Arch archives are associated with places. For example, I host a public copy of my archive here
Archive:I'm naked.
You:Indecent!
Me:Not really, I'm the only one with write access.
Archive:I'm yours.
You:This is weird...
Me:Anyway, the first step to accessing an archive is to register it.
Archive:tla register-archive wingo@pobox.com--2004-main http://ambient.2y.net/wingo/arch/wingo@pobox.com--2004-main/
Me:Then within an archive, there are categories of software to get. What categories do you have, archive?
Archive:Why don't you ask nicely?
You:"Ask nicely"? A cranky archive...
Me:Oh no, it just needs to be talked to in the right way. You can browse the archive with tla abrowse wingo@pobox.com--2004-main.
Archive:I like that.
Me:Then if you want a particular category, like guile-lib--wingo, use get.
You:Ah, I read about that in the tutorial. tla get wingo@pobox.com--2004-main/guile-lib--wingo dest-dir, no?
Archive:I like that too.
You:Um, ok thanks I'm going. You people, er, you, anyway you're weird.