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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label archives</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Repositories of TeX material</h3>
+<p/>To aid the archiving and retrieval of of TeX-related files, a
+TUG working group developed the Comprehensive TeX Archive
+Network (CTAN). Each CTAN site has identical material,
+and maintains authoritative versions of its material. These
+collections are extensive; in particular, almost everything mentioned
+in this FAQ
+is archived at the CTAN sites (see the lists of software at the
+end of each answer).
+<p/>
+ The CTAN sites are
+ <a href="ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive">Dante (Germany)</a>,
+ <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive">Cambridge (UK)</a> and
+ <a href="ftp://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive">TUG (USA)</a>; the links are to
+ the root of the CTAN tree, above which the layout is
+ identical at each site.
+<p/>The TeX files at each CTAN node may also be accessed via
+the Web at URLs <a href="http://www.dante.de/tex-archive">http://www.dante.de/tex-archive</a>,
+<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive">http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive</a> and
+<a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive</a> respectively, but not all
+CTAN mirrors are Web-accessible.
+<p/>As a matter of course, to reduce network load,
+please use the CTAN site
+or mirror closest to you. A complete and current list of CTAN sites
+and known mirrors is available as file <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites">CTAN.sites</a> on the
+archives themselves.
+<p/>Better still, the script behind <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/">http://mirror.ctan.org/</a> will
+cunningly choose a &ldquo;nearby&rdquo; mirror for you, using information from
+the database &lsquo;behind&rsquo; <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites">CTAN.sites</a>; at present it uses
+<code>ftp</code> protocol for transfers, but the intention is to convert
+it to using <code>http</code> (web) protocol in the near future.
+<p/>To access a particular thing through the <code>mirror.ctan.org</code>
+mechanism, simply place the CTAN path after the base
+URL; so
+<a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc/">http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc/</a> will
+connect you to the <i>footmisc</i> directory &mdash; note that the
+<i>tex-archive</i> part of the CTAN path isn&rsquo;t needed.
+<p/>For details of how to find files at CTAN sites, see
+&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-findfiles.html">finding (La)TeX files</a>&rdquo;.
+<p/>The TeX user who has no access to any sort of
+network may buy a copy of the archive as part of the
+<a href="FAQ-CD.html">TeX Live distribution</a>.
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=archives">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=archives</a>
+</body>