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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for FTP client for mac
Message-ID: <1387@intercon.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 16:32:02 GMT
References: <3949@phri.UUCP>
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Reply-To: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
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In article <3949@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> Does there exist an ftp client program for the macintosh?  [...]
> The ideal interface would be to start up the ftp
> client, have it prompt you for a user name and password, and then present
> you with a normal mac-like file diaglog, just like the current "set
> transfer directory" (*) dialog, but on the unix side.
> [...] Perhaps you could have two side-by-side file
> menus, in the style of the Font/DA handler.
> 
> 	Does such a thing exist?

The Stanford MacIP code is the only freely available code that I know of
that does this, and the FTP client does bear something of a resemblence to
the space shuttle command console (buttons 'R' us), but...

Kinetics HostAccess product is very similar (being based on the Stanford
code).

Our (InterCon's) TCP/Connect package has a Font/DA Mover-style FTP client.

Ungermann-Bass's Net One package (which I don't think is actually shipping
yet, but has been shown at trade shows) has something in between Stanford's
and ours in Macishness.

These are the only Macintosh FTP clients that I know of.
--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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