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For your testing, if you have a second machine running Mac OS X, then you can enable incoming FTP access (you'll probably want to ensure that your network is secure, or enable a firewall prior to doing this) for testing. However, I could have just as easily chosen to access a remote server, such as the one hosting my website, or one of a client.

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For my testing, I enabled incoming FTP access in the Sharing system preference on another Mac OS X computer, on my local network. The first thing that we are going to discuss, is the process of connecting to a remote server. If this occurs, please refer to Fetch's AppleScript dictionary for guidance in determining the proper syntax to use. As when scripting any application, if you are using an older or newer version of Fetch, then you may notice some differences in the AppleScript terminology.

If you do not own a license for Fetch, then I encourage you to download a demonstration version, so that you may follow along with the various example scripts throughout this month's column.ДЄll of the example code that we will discuss was written and tested with Fetch version 5.1b2. It is a commercial application, and a demonstration version is available for download from the Fetch Softworks website at. That application is Fetch.Fetch is a popular FTP/SFTP client for the Macintosh. In this month's column, I'd like to switch gears, and talk about a great application that I have been scripting quite a lot lately. We have talked about script properties, property list files, scriptable database applications, and more.

Educational Institution and Student DiscountsД¬olumn Tag: Scripting AppleScript Essentials An Introduction to Scripting FetchДЇor the past several months, we have discussed ways to store and access data from AppleScript.

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