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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label findfiles</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Finding (La)TeX files</h3>
+<p>Modern TeX distributions contain a huge array of support files of
+various sorts, but sooner or later most people need to find something
+that's not in their present system (if nothing else, because they've
+heard that something has been updated).
+<p>But how to find the files?
+<p>Some sources, such as these FAQ answers, provide links to
+files: so if you've learnt about a package here, you should be able to
+retrieve it without too much fuss.
+<p>Otherwise, the CTAN sites provide searching facilities, via the web.
+The simplest search, locating files by name, is to be found on the
+Dante CTAN
+at <a href="http://www.dante.de/cgi-bin/ctan-index">http://www.dante.de/cgi-bin/ctan-index</a>; the script returns
+the same data as does <code>quote site index</code>, but not truncated and
+arranged very neatly as a series of links to directories and
+individual files.
+<p>The <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/search">UK</a> and
+<a href="http://www.ctan.org/search">USA</a> CTANs offer a
+search page that provides
+<ul>
+<li> a file-name search similar to the Dante machine's (above);
+<li> a keyword search of the archive catalogue (see below): this is a
+ pretty powerful tool: the results include links to the catalogue
+ "short descriptions", so you can assure yourself that the package
+ you've found is the one you want; and
+<li> a search form that allows you to use <i>Google</i> to search
+ CTAN.
+</ul>
+<p>In fact, <i>Google</i>, and other search engines, can be useful
+tools. Enter your search keywords, and you may pick up a package that
+the author hasn't bothered to submit to CTAN. If you're using
+<i>Google</i>, you can restrict your search to CTAN by
+entering
+<blockquote>
+ <code>site:ctan.org tex-archive &lt;<i>search term(s)</i>&gt;</code>
+</blockquote>
+in <i>Google</i>'s "search box". You can also enforce the
+restriction using <i>Google</i>'s "advanced search" mechanism;
+other search engines (presumably) have similar facilities.
+<p>Many people avoid the need to go over the network at all, for their
+searches, by downloading the file list that Dante's
+"<code>quote site index</code>" command uses. This file, <i>FILES.byname</i>,
+presents a unified listing of the archive (omitting directory names and
+cross-links). Its companion <i>FILES.last07days</i> is also useful, to
+keep an eye on the changes on the archive. Since these files are
+updated only once a day, a nightly automatic download (perhaps using
+<i>rsync</i>) makes good sense.
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>FILES.byname</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/FILES.byname">FILES.byname</a>
+<dt><tt><i>FILES.last07days</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/FILES.last07days">FILES.last07days</a>
+</dl>
+<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=findfiles">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=findfiles</a>
+</body>