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From: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ftp?
Summary: FTP definition
Message-ID: <14682@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 23:01:15 GMT
References: <1228@cbnewse.ATT.COM> <4713@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Andy Silverman)
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In article <4713@cps3xx.UUCP> gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook) writes:
>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.

Just an addition here- FTP is a generally standard component of software
for systems using a TCP/IP connection, not just UNIX systems.  FTP is
simply the accepted protocol under TCP/IP (ArpaNet, Internet, etc...) for
doing file transfer through the network.



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