Mac OS and FTP

[bobw0]

My wife is a teacher and has several Macs and she wants to maintain her classroom web page by herself. She currently must email her pages to a person, who (when the lady gets around to it) updates her page for her. She was told that the reason that she cannot update her web page is that they must purchase an FTP program for each Mac (cost of $30 each). I do not know that much about Macs (do not know the version they are running), and they are running Netscape (don't know the version, but think it is 3.something).
I tried from within my Internet Explorer(v.6 on NT) from the address window FTP://HOST.FTPSITE.COM and was able to transfer the files.
The question is, is this lady feeding her some bull? Does Netscape and/or Mac OS provide an (albiet, maybe not full featured) FTP agent? Thanks for any help and suggestions.

 

[jimbopalmer]

I use the program interarchy but

http://versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_Filter=MacOS&search=ftp

is several ftp tools which may suit your situation I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[Zelandakh]

IE for Mac doesn't support FTP as there is no underlying command line utility to use.

Little shareware apps like fetch can be used.

 

[kagran]

Fetch is a good FTP program for the Mac. I've been using version 3.0.3 for four years - it's shareware. There's a new version available.

 

[rmetteauer]

I think that if you check the fetch home page you will find that Fetch 4.01 is free to schools.

 

[desg]

Navigator has a built in file manager in the composer mode.

 

[Guest_imported]

Mac OS-X has built in FTP. You just need to go to the Terminal and use the Unix command line.

 

[bobw0]

Thanks for the information, everyone!!

 

[Machead]

OS X comes with iTools you don't need a FTP application and they give you 20mb per user all you need it a iTools account its very easy to use you don't need to know HTML and its free. Here is the url to the apple iTools site.

http://itools.mac.com/WebObjects/iTools.woa?aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en