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Fetch 4.0 Off The Leash


Jim Matthews, who bought the rights to his Fetch FTP client from Dartmouth College and founded Fetch Softworks with his winnings on the U.S. television game show “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,” has now released Fetch 4.0, the first major update to the program since 1995. Jim updated the venerable 12-year-old FTP client by making it compatible with System 7.0 all the way up to Mac OS X, where it features a full Aqua interface. Modern technologies supported in Fetch 4.0 include AppleScript, the Keychain, contextual menus, QuickTime for viewing media, and text to speech for feedback. Other interesting features include a mirror command for synchronization between local and remote folders, support for creating and editing text and graphic files with BBEdit and Graphic Converter, server-to-server transfers and within-server copies, support for Kerberos security, the capability to resume interrupted downloads, and a Get Info command that can tell you how much data is stored in a folder through recursive listing. Fetch costs $25 for individual use, though free serial numbers are available for educational or charitable organizations, and site licenses are available for multiple copies. Despite the transfer from Dartmouth at the end of 2000, upgrades from version 3.0.3 purchased any time after 30-Apr-00 are free. It’s great to see Fetch development moving forward again like this!

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