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[AVHilliard]

i'm looking for an easy MAC ftp program.

Tks!

[BC]

Have a look at Download.com's collection of FTP clients. It looks like Fetch is the most popular of them.

[theNonsuch]

I guess it depends on your definition of "easy"...

If you're looking for the most "Mac-like" experience (i.e. something close to how the Finder works), I'd recommend NetFinder:

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pli/netfinder/

For pure speed and maximum BBEdit compatibility, Interarchy is the best bet, but it's got a lot of "extra" functions which are pretty superfluous.

http://www.interarchy.com/

and Vicomsoft FTP client is pretty good, too:

http://www.vicomsoft.com/

And, finally, Panic's Transmit is okay, too, but lacking some major features that the above have.

http://www.panic.com/transmit/

All of the above have free trial periods, so it'd wouldn't hurt to give a few of them a test drive to see which one you like best.

Fetch is always a good standby, but it's showing its age now... and lacks a lot of the handier features of the above.

Hope this helps!

Neil

[akashik]

Seconds on Fetch. Never used it, but it seems most Mac-heads seem to use that one.

Greg Moore

[Lawrence]

Fetch to Mac is like WS_FTP to Windows.

I don't know if it's any good... but I'm pretty sure it's the standard.