You can control the number of results returned in the archie system by 3
 variables. 'maxhits', 'maxmatch' and 'maxhitspm'.

 'maxhits' is a numeric variable whose value is the maximum number of
 matches you want the 'find' command to generate.

 If archie seems to be slow, or you don't want a lot of output this can be
 set to a small value.  "maxhits" must be within the range 0 to 1000.  The
 default value is 1000.

 Example:

    set maxhits 100

 'find' will now stop after 100 matches have been found

 There are 2 variables which work with the 'maxhits' variable to modify
 the behavior of the search mechanism. They are 'maxmatch' and
 'maxhitspm'. The database can be viewed as follows:

 
    filename1 ----> file1 -> file2 -> file3
   	|
	V
    filename2 ----> file1 -> file2 -> file3 -> file4
        |
	V
    filename3 ----> file1
	|
	V
      (etc)

 Each filename can have several files associated with it which share that
 name. For example, the string "README" is only stored once but points to
 the information for each of the files in the database called README
 spread around all the anonymous FTP sites on the Internet (which, as you
 can imagine are numerous).

 The maximum total number of "files" (hits) returned is determined by the
 'maxhits' variable. The maximum number of filenames that match is
 determined by the 'maxmatch' variable. Finally if you only want to
 return a limited number of files for each filename matched, use the
 'maxhitspm' variable.

 If you do the following:

 	set maxhits	20
	set maxmatch	 5
	set maxthitspm	 7

 Then you will match at most 5 filenames. For each filename you will be
 given back at most 7 files with that name. However, in total you will
 only be returned 20 hits, since maxhits operates on the total number
 regardless of the the combinations of the hits.