Fetch - Fetch is a very nicely written program to perform ftp file transfers to and from remote sites. Fetch was written by at Dartmouth College , a campus that makes extensive use of Macintosh computers, and Fetch is free of charge to educational users. Fetch offers a Macintosh-style interface for connecting to anonymous ftp sites and retrieving files. It will also automatically decode files of various compression and text encoding types. For example, if a file you fetch from a remote site is in Binhex format, Fetch will perfom the file transfer and then open a window for you to specify where to save the decoded version of the file.
Fetch can also do the same for the popular public domain compression program formats.
Another nice feature of Fetch is its ability to analyze a file and determine what type it is. The program lets you specify whether the file transferred will be text or binary. This ability, combined with the automatic conversion features, makes Fetch one of the easiest Internet tools to use. When using TurboGopher, it is also necessary to have NCSA Telnet abd Brown TN3270 installed in order to have full access to the resources available via Gopher. Each of the following has some good features, but none has yet been identified as being best suited for our needs on this camppus.