Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!tank!eecae!cps3xx!gcook From: gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ftp? Message-ID: <4713@cps3xx.UUCP> Date: 22 Sep 89 21:46:05 GMT References: <1228@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Distribution: usa Lines: 21 From article <1228@cbnewse.ATT.COM>, by langev@cbnewse.ATT.COM (steve.j.langevin): > I've been reading through the items on the net for a while now > and I keep seeing the term "ftp" while I've never seen it defined. > Would some kind soul please enlighten me (and probably a lot of > other people on the net)? Thanks in advance! Someone, PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong! My understanding is the FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. A system to transfer files between different computers (UNIX only?). How it works is you need to ftp (establish a connection) to some HOST computer from your own, and then send the appropriate commands to transfer files to and from that host. I'm sure I didn't explain this very well, but I hope this helps some! ========================================================================= Greg Cook All good things come through chemistry! gcook@horus.cem.msu.edu cook@frith.egr.msu.edu