The response we have had here at Stairways to the latest version of our flagship product Anarchie Pro 3.0, has been nothing short of _amazing_ over the past few days.
For those of you that missed the press release and the rave reviews on all the mac sites here is a quick snippet. You can get the full details and download your copy at,
---- "Anarchie Pro the web browser. Huh?" - a confused Stairways minion.
"Yes! Anarchie Pro introduces a new faster way to browse the web. Packed with new features, the most exciting of which is its ability to quickly extract, sort and list the links from a web page into a finder-like window - without having to wait for all the excess garbage that goes with it. Anarchie Pro has helped Macintosh users easily break ground with FTP sites for years, and now it does the same for web sites." - Andrew Tomazos.
Perth, Western Australia -- 5 Sept 1998 -- Stairways Software Pty Ltd, today announced the release of Anarchie Pro - version 3.0 of the premiere Macintosh file transfer client. With new support for the web (HTTP), offline browsing, mirroring, resumed transfers and remote file editing - it has positioned itself as a broad and essential tool for every Mac Internet user.
New Features Described in Detail
Get Entire Web Site : For a variety of reasons you may want to take a local copy of a web site. Anarchie Pro now lets you do this with ease and reliability. Simply type in the name of a web site and Anarchie Pro will copy its contents to your hard disk - it's that simple.
Mirror Put FTP Site : Many web site maintainers find Anarchie Pro the easiest tool to use to keep their web sites up to date. Anarchie Pro now makes this task even easier with the new mirror feature. Simply fill out the information about your remote web server, select the local directory you want to mirror to the server - and Anarchie Pro will do the rest.
Web Listing : Anarchie Pro introduces a totally new way to browse the world wide web. Enter a standard web page link in the "Get via HTTP" window and Anarchie Pro will download the web page, remove all the text, pictures and other rubbish and present you an alphabetically ordered list of all the links it contains, just like an FTP site.
Resumable Downloads : Downloading a large file and you lose your Internet connection? No problem, simply reconnect, double click on the unfinished file and Anarchie Pro will continue where it left off.
Edit Remote File : Tired of downloading a text file, editing it, logging back on and transferring it back? No problem. Anarchie Pro lets you use BBEdit, the popular text editor,to edit files on remote servers. Simply highlight the file and click "Edit with BBEdit". ----
-- ________________________________________________________ Andrew Tomazos, Macintosh Programmer, www.stairways.com +61-8-9364-9879 and...@stairways.com.au aussie'n'proud
In article <1df3r60.omlkeqtq42eoN@[203.8.112.222]>, and...@stairways.com.au
(Andrew Tomazos) wrote:
> Edit Remote File : Tired of downloading a text file, editing it, logging > back on and transferring it back? No problem. Anarchie Pro lets you use > BBEdit, the popular text editor,to edit files on remote servers. Simply > highlight the file and click "Edit with BBEdit".
Or you could just use BBEdit's built in "Open from/Save to FTP site" command?
Andy Law ------------------ ( Andy....@bbsrc.ac.uk ) ( Big Nose in Edinburgh )
In article <Andy.Law-ya023480001009980930570...@is.bbsrc.ac.uk>,
Andy....@bbsrc.ac.uk (Andy Law) wrote: > > Edit Remote File : Tired of downloading a text file, editing it, logging > > back on and transferring it back? No problem. Anarchie Pro lets you use > > BBEdit, the popular text editor,to edit files on remote servers. Simply > > highlight the file and click "Edit with BBEdit".
>Or you could just use BBEdit's built in "Open from/Save to FTP site" command?
Anarchie's implementation is very useful, because it provides additional features such as being able to select and open multiple files with one stroke, and supports a wider range of servers than BBEdit's built-in FTP tool. Also, since Anarchie operates in the background, you can do other things with your machine while waiting for the transfer(s) to complete.
All in all, it's a very useful supplement to the built-in functionality.
# Anarchie's implementation is very useful, because it provides additional # features such as being able to select and open multiple files with one # stroke, and supports a wider range of servers than BBEdit's built-in FTP # tool. Also, since Anarchie operates in the background, you can do other # things with your machine while waiting for the transfer(s) to complete.
Yes, three features that some of us have been wanting a long while. :D
Also, I'll probably update my Mac::Apps::Anarchie MacPerl module in the next couple of months to support Anarchie 3.0. I am in the middle of another project right now. The new mirror feature sounds cool. In my web publishing system I use File::Find to iterate through a directory structure and upload each one in turn. Easier than in AppleScript, but still not optimum, especially since it is easy for an event to time out that way.
Of course, right now the system only uploads changed files, which means I must pick each file manually and do a separate event for each one. C'est la vie. Still, I am looking forward to playing more with Anarchie 3.0.
In article <1df5zkn.chj4dd1mbyq...@z25063.2.sbbs.se>,
andekl@NO_SPAM.saaf.se wrote: >That's all very nice - but it still doesn't understand file listings >from VMS systems. I'd expect nothing less from a "Pro" application.
I agree with this 100%, which is a big reason why I dropped Anarchie Pro almost as soon as I looked at it. Fetch is still the only Mac FTP client I've ever seen which knows how to deal with VMS. That's not to detract from AP's many other features, but I use VMS all the time and need a Mac FTP client that will deal with it.
-- Donald L. Nash, <D.N...@utexas.edu>, PGP Key ID: 0x689DA021 The University of Texas System Office of Telecommunication Services
In article <D.Nash-1009981738440...@bubba.ots.utexas.edu>, D.N...@utexas.edu (Donald L. Nash) wrote:
> >That's all very nice - but it still doesn't understand file listings > >from VMS systems. I'd expect nothing less from a "Pro" application.
> I agree with this 100%, which is a big reason why I dropped Anarchie Pro > almost as soon as I looked at it. Fetch is still the only Mac FTP client > I've ever seen which knows how to deal with VMS. That's not to detract > from AP's many other features, but I use VMS all the time and need a Mac > FTP client that will deal with it.
Geez, guys. I keep both Fetch and Anarchie around, as each has its own strengths and weaknesses
Anarchie doesn't do S/Key authentication -- more important to me than VAX support -- which Fetch does beautifully. I guess this means that a lot of the new "Pro" features are of no use to me (since I can't use it for non-anonymous FTP, as all the computers I would want to access require S/Key authentication).
Still trying to decide whether the other new features are worth the upgrade.
In article <rsnews-1009980721510...@endeavour.barebones.com>,
rsn...@barebones.com wrote: > Anarchie's implementation is very useful, because it provides additional > features such as being able to select and open multiple files with one > stroke, and supports a wider range of servers than BBEdit's built-in FTP > tool. Also, since Anarchie operates in the background, you can do other > things with your machine while waiting for the transfer(s) to complete.
Not to take anything away from either Anarchie or BBEdit, but with its ftp filesets, Alpha <http://www.bcity.com/alphatext/> has had all these capabilities for awhile. It uses existing versions of Anarchie or Fetch to do the ftp gruntwork, so it supports any servers that they do.
-- Jonathan E. Guyer Join LMESOTENPAMSNFZ ("Let's make everything south of the 89th parallel a Microsoft no-fly-zone" AKA "Give Bill the Pole!")
Andy Law <Andy....@bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote: > In article <1df3r60.omlkeqtq42eoN@[203.8.112.222]>, and...@stairways.com.au > (Andrew Tomazos) wrote:
> > Edit Remote File : Tired of downloading a text file, editing it, logging > > back on and transferring it back? No problem. Anarchie Pro lets you use > > BBEdit, the popular text editor,to edit files on remote servers. Simply > > highlight the file and click "Edit with BBEdit".
> Or you could just use BBEdit's built in "Open from/Save to FTP site" command?
That's all very nice - but it still doesn't understand file listings from VMS systems. I'd expect nothing less from a "Pro" application.
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In article <distler-1009981821060...@192.168.0.1>,
dist...@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) wrote: >Geez, guys. I keep both Fetch and Anarchie around, as each has its own >strengths and weaknesses
I don't like having to juggle multiple clients of the same protocol, especially when I have to pay for them, and Fetch does everything I need it to do in a rather friendly fashion. Anarchie has a fancier interface and more features and would probably be more pleasing to use, but I can't justify switching to it when it lacks a feature I need.
-- Donald L. Nash, <D.N...@utexas.edu>, PGP Key ID: 0x689DA021 The University of Texas System Office of Telecommunication Services
In article <D.Nash-1109981212360...@bubba.ots.utexas.edu>, D.N...@utexas.edu (Donald L. Nash) wrote:
> >Geez, guys. I keep both Fetch and Anarchie around, as each has its own > >strengths and weaknesses
> I don't like having to juggle multiple clients of the same protocol, > especially when I have to pay for them, and Fetch does everything I need > it to do in a rather friendly fashion. Anarchie has a fancier interface > and more features and would probably be more pleasing to use, but I can't > justify switching to it when it lacks a feature I need.
Yeah, well, as I said in my post, I use Anarchie for anonymous FTP and Fetch for non-anonymous FTP (as it supports S/Key). While these are, technically, the same protocol, the user experience is quite different.
I don't mind juggling different clients.
Technically, this could all be handled by Netscape (well, actually, it doesn't do S/Key). But these specialized clients are much better adapted for the task(s).
Price, on the other hand, is a different matter. . . .
