Interarchy was a

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, SFTP,

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. It was made by Nolobe and supported many advanced features for transferring, syncing and managing files over the Internet. Interarchy was created by Mac programmer Peter N Lewis in 1993 for

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. Lewis went on to form

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in 1995 to continue development of Interarchy. In 2007 Lewis sold Interarchy to Matthew Drayton of Nolobe. Drayton was an employee of Stairways Software having worked as a developer of Interarchy alongside Lewis since 2001. Interarchie was discontinued after 2017 and its website is no longer available. Interarchy was originally called ''Anarchie'' because it was "an

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" client. The name was changed to Interarchy in 2000 due to a conflict with a

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