Interarchy
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| Developer(s) | Nolobe Software Pty Ltd |
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| Stable release | 10.0.2
/ August 18, 2010 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X, Mac OS Classic (Discontinued) |
| Type | FTP client, Download Manager and Network Utility |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Interarchy (originally known as Anarchie) is a file transfer application for Mac OS X. It is engineered by Nolobe Software Pty Ltd.
Features
Interarchy is an RFC standards compliant TCP/IP file transfer client. It supports a number of file transfer protocols:
- FTP
- FTP/SSL-TLS
- iFTP
- SFTP
- SCP
- HTTP
- HTTPS
- WebDAV
- WebDAVS
- Amazon S3
- Rackspace Cloud Files
- Google Storage
It operates differently from a standard FTP client in that, instead of keeping the same connection, Anarchie disconnects and reconnects for each transfer, more like a web browser. This had the disadvantage that the new connection could be refused on heavily-loaded servers or servers with connection limits.
Early versions kept track of how much total data was transferred with the program, and used it to assign an Elite-like user rating such as "Beginner" or "Net Assassin".[1] When the user attained a new rating the program prompted with "Right on commander!", same as Elite. The program used Apple's Macintalk text to speech technology to make the announcement. This feature was dropped in Anarchie 3.0.
History
Anarchie (so named because it was an Archie client) was one of the first FTP clients for the Macintosh; Peter N. Lewis wrote Anarchie 1.0 in 1993 while working at Curtin University, and founded Stairways Software in 1995.
Shortly after the release of Anarchie 2.0 in 1996, Stairways was joined by Andrew Tomazos, who managed the product for five years until the release of Interarchy 7.0.
Anarchie gained HTTP support by version 3.5, which also dropped Archie support and added support for the same channel files used by Apple's Sherlock tool. This was especially useful for owners of older systems, since Anarchie only required Mac OS version 7.0, while Sherlock required version 8.5.
Anarchie became Interarchy with version 4.0, when it merged with Stairways' other network utilities (OTSessionWatcher, Script Daemon, Finger and Daemon). This gave Interarchy the network utilities listed above, as well as several (finger, telnet and network time protocol) that were lost in the transition to Mac OS X.[clarification needed] The Internet search capabilities were dropped with version 7.0.
Interarchy was carbonized with version 4.1, and has required Mac OS X since version 7.0.
Interarchy was developed by Stairways Software Pty Ltd until February 1, 2007. It was then sold to Nolobe Pty Ltd in what was described as "an employee buyout" by Matthew Drayton. At the time of the purchase Drayton had been lead developer on Interarchy for nearly six years.
Version History
- Anarchie 1.0–7 December 1993
- Anarchie 1.1–24 January 1994
- Anarchie 1.2–4 June 1994
- Anarchie 1.2.1–9 July 1994
- Anarchie 2.0–15 November 1996
- Anarchie Pro 3.0–7 September 1998
- Anarchie Pro 3.5–2 December 1998
- Interarchy 4.0–14 December 2000
- Interarchy 5.0–20 August 2001
- Interarchy 6.0–30 October 2002
- Interarchy 7.0–17 February 2004
- Interarchy 7.0.1–5 March 2004
- Interarchy 7.1–19 April 2004
- Interarchy 7.1.1–20 April 2004
- Interarchy 7.2–15 July 2004
- Interarchy 7.2.1–5 August 2004
- Interarchy 7.3–18 January 2005
- Interarchy 7.3.1–19 January 2005
- Interarchy 7.3.2–24 February 2005
- Interarchy 7.3.3–14 April 2005
- Interarchy 8.0–28 March 2006
- Interarchy 8.0.1–27 April 2006
- Interarchy 8.1–20 June 2006
- Interarchy 8.1.1–29 June 2006
- Interarchy 8.2–6 September 2006
- Interarchy 8.2.1–26 October 2006
- Interarchy 8.2.2–30 October 2006
- Interarchy 8.5–1 February 2007
- Interarchy 8.5.2–8 May 2007
- Interarchy 8.5.4–29 October 2007
- Interarchy 9.0–11 January 2008
- Interarchy 10.0–5 August 2010
- Interarchy 10.0.1–6 August 2010
- Interarchy 10.0.2–18 August 2010