Fetch is a full-featured GUI-based

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for the

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and

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made by

Fetch Softworks Fetch Softworks is the developer of the Mac FTP client, Fetch. The first version of Fetch was created in 1989 by Fetch Softworks founder, Jim Matthews, when he was an employee of Dartmouth College. After participating on ''Who Wants to be a Milli ...

. In addition to basic

FTP The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network. FTP is built on a client–server model architecture using separate control and data ...

functionality, Fetch includes such features as editing files without having to download them and re-upload them. In version 5.0, support for SFTP was added, and in version 5.2,

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was added.

History

Fetch was created in the summer of 1989 by Jim Matthews, an employee of

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. At the time, it was intended primarily for internal college use. Fetch was maintained and updated as a Dartmouth software project and was eventually released as

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, becoming very popular in the

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community. Due to its status as an official product of an educational institution, Fetch was always free for educational users. The first version of Fetch was a

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. For most of the 1990s it competed with Anarchie as one of the two main Mac FTP clients. After being a contestant on the game show ''

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'' in December 2000, Matthews used his winnings to purchase the Fetch

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and launch

Essay contest

In September 2007, Fetch Softworks hosted a back-to-school essay contest for students, teachers, or anyone else affiliated with an educational institution. There were five winners: four second-prize winners and one grand-prize winner; the second-place contestants were awarded a third-generation iPod Nano and $100. The grand-prize winner was given a black Apple MacBook along with $750. The contest asked Fetch users how they incorporated Fetch into their lives.

References

External links

Official website
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History

Essay contest

See also

References

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