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OCR: NewsWatcher 2.0 Fetching Referenced Files When you open an ftp URL, News Watcher runs helper program to fetch the referenced file and copy it to your hard drive People often use ftp URLs to refer to files which are available via anony mous FTP For example, you might see the following text in posting: Thave written the world's greatest version of Tetris for the Mac. It uses billions of colors pue always lets you win. You can get it at ftp://ftp.flunku. I.edu/pub/hotstuff/wild-tetris. .sit.hqx News Watcher runs the FTP helper .program in the background, so you don't have to for the file to be transferred from the FTF host to your Mac. You can continue rea news in NewsWatcher while the helper program fetches the file for you Sometimes people use URLs to refer to directories rather than to fil ...