Exact string match. Search using a regular expression. Search substrings ignoring the case of the letters. If specified, place the results of the search in filename. Output results as Alex filenames.
Output results in a form suitable for parsing by programs.
Sort the results inverted by date. Tells the client to query the Archie server hostname. Lists the Archie servers known to the program when it was compiled, as well as the name of the default Archie server. With the verbose option, archie will make some comments along the way if a search is going to take some time, to pacify the user. This is so if there are matches that are par- ticularly obvious, it will take a minimal amount of time to satisfy your request.