Author:  Terry Crawford

September 24, 2006

     FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and allows the transferring of files from one computer to another. Some sites are restricted and require the use of an assigned user name and password. Other sites allow anonymous FTP, in which your email address is the password. In fact, one of the most popular activities on the Internet is in using Anonymous FTP to obtain freeware and shareware programs, electronic texts, and multimedia files.  Another extremely popular FTP activities on the Internet is in uploading files to Web sites.  So, in essence, you can not only download files, but you can also upload files using FTP.

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