Interarchy

Infobox_Software
name = Interarchy



caption = Interarchy 8.2
developer = Nolobe Pty Ltd
latest_release_version = 9.0
latest_release_date = release_date|2008|01|11
latest_preview_version =
latest_preview_date =
operating_system = Mac OS X, Mac OS Classic (Discontinued)
genre = FTP client, Download Manager and Network Utility
license = Proprietary
website = http://www.nolobe.com

Interarchy (originally known as Anarchie) is a file transfer application for Mac OS X. It is engineered by Nolobe Pty Ltd.

Features

Interarchy is an RFC standards compliant TCP/IP file transfer client. It supports a number of file transfer protocols:

* FTP
* FTP over SSH
* FTP/SSL-TLS
* SFTP
* HTTP
* HTTPS
* WebDAV
* WebDAVS
* Amazon S3

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 at Curtin University, and founded Stairways Software in 1995.

During the preparation of Anarchie Pro 3.0 in 1997, Stairways was joined by Andrew Tomazos, who managed product development for five years until the release of Interarchy 7.0.

Anarchie gained HTTP support by version 3.5, which also dropped Archie support in favor of 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. (Interarchy lost Internet search capabilities with version 7.0).

Anarchie became Interarchy with version 4.0, when it merged with Stairways' other network utilities (OT Sessionwatcher, 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.

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

See also

*Comparison of FTP client software

External links

* [http://www.interarchy.com/ Official website]