At the current time, there are several programs which use Fetch Prefs for suffix mapping and transmission mode:
Fetch (ftp client, Jim Matthews)
Anarchie (archie/ftp client, Peter Lewis)
FTPd (ftp server, Peter Lewis)
... MacGzip 0.2.2
If you want to use Fetch preferences with MacGzip, but you don't want to use Fetch, you can:
1) Get Fetch and use it as an editor for the suffixes list.
2) Move the 'Fetch Prefs' from this folder to your Preferences folder and edit it with a resource editor like ResEdit.
3) Get Internet Config
• Internet Config
From "Internet Config 1.0 Press Release":
Internet Config: Solving Preference Proliferation
-------------------------------------------------
We all use many different programs to access the Internet and each of these
programs has its own preference dialog, wherein you set things like your
Email address, your FTP helper application and your preferred program to
open ".jpg" files. Keeping these preferences in synch in all your Internet
applications is becoming increasingly difficult. Worse yet, many simple
applications do not even have a mechanism for setting these preferences and
so you are stuck with the author's default preferences.
The Internet Configuration system is a solution to this problem. Internet
Config is an application that allows you to set these preferences once.
Internet Config stores these preferences is a shared database and any "IC
Aware" application will automatically get its preferences from this
database.
...
Where Do I Get Internet Config?
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Internet Config will run on all Macintosh Plus or newer machines that are
running System 6 or greater. Internet Config has been posted to MacGifts
and should show up on Info-Mac and UMich (and their mirror sites) soon. It
is also available from any site that holds Peter Lewis' software, namely...
ftp://redback.cs.uwa.edu.au//Others/PeterLewis/
ftp://ftp.nig.ac.jp/pub/mac/PeterLewis/
ftp://nic.switch.ch/software/mac/peterlewis/
ftp://amug.org/pub/peterlewis/
ftp://ftp.share.com/peterlewis/
ftp://cadadmin.cadlab.vt.edu/peterlewis/
ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/newswatcher/helpers/
ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/
• Notes
-MacGzip looks for a file named 'Fetch Prefs' in your Preferences folder, so you should use Fetch 2.1.2 or later. (earlier versions of Fetch use 'Fetch Preferences', just the same name of Aldus Fetch preferences (an image database))
-If the Fetch change the name of its preferences file in the future, you can change STR 129 in MacGzip.
-Fetch can find its preferences as well in the preferences folder as in the same folder where the application resides. If your 'Fetch Prefs' file is in your Fetch folder, you should move it to the Preferences folder in your system folder.
-MacGzip uses the Ostrich approach for Internet Config Prefs. This means that IC settings are read just at MacGzip startup, if you change them after, 'changes wont apply till nex time etc etc'
• Suffixes:
These are the suffixes I have set in the 'Fetch Prefs':
