The 'set' command allows you to set one of archie's variables. Their values affect how archie interacts with the user. archie distinguishes between three types of variable: "boolean", which may be either set or unset, "numeric", representing an integer within a pre-determined range, and "string", whose value is a string of characters (which may or may not be restricted). Currently, the variables that may be set are: autologout - numeric. Number of minutes before automatic log out compress - string. Compression algorithm to be used encode - string. Encoding algorithm to be used (with compress) language - string. Language of help facility mailto - string. Address that output is to be mailed to match_domain - string. List of domains of sites for matches match_path - string. List of filename components for matches maxhits - numeric. 'find' stops after this many hits maxhitspm - numeric. Max number of hits per given filename maxmatch - numeric. Max number of filenames to return max_split_size - numeric. Approx. max size of file part to be mailed output_format - string. How the output is to be displayed pager - boolean. If set, use the pager, otherwise don't search - string. How 'find' is to search the database sortby - string. How 'find' output is to be sorted status - boolean. Report how the search is progressing term - string. Describes your terminal Each variable has a corresponding subtopic entry under 'set'. See them for more details. Also, see help on 'unset' and 'show'.