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From: gcook@cps3xx.UUCP (Greg Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ftp?
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Date: 22 Sep 89 21:46:05 GMT
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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!

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