Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!silver 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) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 28 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. +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Andy Silverman | Internet: silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu | | "All stressed out and | Compu$erve: 72261,531 | | nobody to choke." | | +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------+