| Developer(s) | Nolobe Pty Ltd |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 10.0.2 / August 18, 2010 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X, Mac OS Classic (Discontinued) |
| Type | FTP client, Download Manager and Network Utility |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | http://www.nolobe.com |
Interarchy (originally known as Anarchie) is a file transfer application for Mac OS X. It is engineered by Nolobe Pty Ltd.
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Interarchy is an RFC standards compliant TCP/IP file transfer client. It supports a number of file transfer protocols:
Anarchie (so named because it was an Archie client) was one of the first FTP clients for the Macintosh; Peter N. Lewis wrote Anarchie 1.0 in 1993 while working at Curtin University, and founded Stairways Software in 1995.
Shortly after the release of Anarchie 2.0 in 1996, Stairways was joined by Andrew Tomazos, who managed the product for five years until the release of Interarchy 7.0.
Anarchie gained HTTP support by version 3.5, which also dropped Archie support in favor of Apple's Sherlock tool. This was especially useful for owners of older systems, since Anarchie only required Mac OS version 7.0, while Sherlock required version 8.5. (Interarchy's Internet search capabilities were dropped with version 7.0).
Anarchie became Interarchy with version 4.0, when it merged with Stairways' other network utilities (OTSessionWatcher, Script Daemon, Finger and Daemon). This gave Interarchy the network utilities listed above, as well as several (finger, telnet and network time protocol) that were lost in the transition to Mac OS X.
Interarchy was carbonized with version 4.1, and has required Mac OS X since version 7.0.
Interarchy was developed by Stairways Software Pty Ltd until February 1, 2007. It was then sold to Nolobe Pty Ltd in what was described as "an employee buyout" by Matthew Drayton. At the time of the purchase Drayton had been lead developer on Interarchy for nearly six years.