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From: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for FTP client for mac
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Date: 21 Aug 89 21:55:16 GMT
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In article <3949@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	We want our Mac users (including secretaries) to be able to
>transfer files to and from our Unix systems without having to know anything
>about ftp or unix.  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 dialog....
>
>	Does such a thing exist?

You've just described Fetch, a DA which just entered beta test here.
Fetch supports uploads and downloads of text and binary files plus Mac
files in MacBinary II and BinHex formats.  The interface looks just like
the SFGetFile dialog (a list of files, pop-up menu of directories,
double-click to enter a directory or get a file).  It sure is nice to
double-click on a .hqx file at sumex and have the *real* file show up
on my desktop.

I would send you a copy but Fetch uses KSP, a local stream protocol, and
talks to TCP machines through a gateway that does KSP<-->TCP
translation.  We may develop a MacTCP version of Fetch if there is
interest (and if Apple fixes MacTCP so that it works on our net).

Disclaimer: I wrote Fetch and am totally biased.

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development