tde-i18n/tde-i18n-en_GB/docs/tdebase/tdeioslave/ftp/index.docbook

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<title>&FTP;</title>
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<author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"><firstname>Malcolm</firstname><surname>Hunter</surname><affiliation><address><email>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit> 
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<para>&FTP; is the Internet service used to transfer a data file from the disk of one computer to the disk of another, regardless of the operating system type. </para>

<para>Similar to other Internet applications, &FTP; uses the client-server approach &mdash; a user invokes an &FTP; program on the computer, instructs it to contact a remote computer, and then requests the transfer of one or more files. The local &FTP; program becomes a client that uses <acronym>TCP</acronym> to contact an &FTP; server program on the remote computer. Each time the user requests a file transfer, the client and the server programs cooperate to send a copy of the data across the Internet. </para>

<para>&FTP; servers which allow <quote>anonymous &FTP;</quote> permit any user, not only users with accounts on the host, to browse the <quote>ftp</quote> archives and download files. Some &FTP; servers are configured to allow users to upload files. </para>

<para>&FTP; is commonly used to retrieve information and obtain software stored in files at &FTP; archive sites throughout the world. </para>


<para>Source: Paraphrased from <ulink url="http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/ftpdef.htm"> http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/ftpdef.htm</ulink> </para>

<para>See the manual: <ulink url="man:/ftp">ftp</ulink>.</para>

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