Fetch-O-Matic 2.4 automated website maintenance via FTP

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Fetch-O-Matic (v.2.5) is suite of applications for automated website
maintenance via FTP. Fetch-O-Matic allows web authors to freely
create and update files locally without needing to keep track of
their work, and to then automatically catalog the alterations and
update the website. It also performs synchronization in the other
direction, watching a remote location and automatically downloading
any new or changed files appearing there. It provides seamless
integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive, and similar
website authoring packages, offering more robust and more flexible
handling of file transfers. And if several people are maintaining a
site, Fetch-O-Matic protects them from treading on each other's
updates.

Fetch-O-Matic differs from other available synchronization and
maintenance schemes in that it does not require any local machine to
have a complete site copy. For example, one might decide to grab a
few pages and change them (and/or add some new files) from a
PowerBook. Later, the site copy on the primary machine can be quickly
brought up-to-date with just two clicks - without having to remember
what was changed or consult the PowerBook.

Fetch-O-Matic is easy to use. Novice web authors in search of a
simple way to update a personal web page need not be intimidated by
its power. Experienced hands will find that previously dreaded
operations such as multi-file search and replace, with the subsequent
headache of tracking down and uploading scattered altered files, are
rendered painless. Transfer errors such as uploading/downloading to
the wrong directory are a thing of the past.

Fetch-O-Matic was conceived and developed to fill a need in servicing
a large site (http://www.filmscouts.com). Uploads and downloads of
thousands of files at once have been performed with ease. But even on
a site with just a few pages, Fetch-O-Matic will ease the updating
chores.

Not just for websites, Fetch-O-Matic handles a range of FTP file
transfer operations, including continuous local and remote folder
watching and synchronization. It is in use as an FTP tool by news
organizations, webcam operators, and project co-ordinators in a wide
variety of situations worldwide.

Fetch-O-Matic requires Dartmouth's FTP client "Fetch", AppleScript,
the scripting addition Jon's Commands, and, optionally, Alessandro
Levi Montalcini's "List Files" (providing a significant speed
improvement for large sites), all of which are readily available
online. Fetch-O-Matic runs on any Mac OS machine with reasonable
(8mb+) RAM running System 7, 8, or 9. It runs in the background. It
is shareware with a single-user license fee of $20. There is a free
30-day trial period. The complete documentation is available online
at the Fetch-O-Matic home page,
http://www.filmscouts.com/software/fom.asp.

New in this version: 1) The ability to automatically delete remote
files after download to a local machine. 2) Complete compatibility
with OS 9.1.