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<article id="ftp">
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<title
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>&FTP;</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author
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>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<othercredit role="translator"
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><firstname
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>Malcolm</firstname
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><surname
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>Hunter</surname
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><affiliation
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><address
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><email
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>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
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></address
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></affiliation
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><contrib
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>Conversion to British English</contrib
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></othercredit
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>
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</authorgroup>
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</articleinfo>
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<para
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>&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>
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<para
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>Similar to other Internet applications, &FTP; uses the client-server approach — 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
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>TCP</acronym
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> 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>
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<para
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>&FTP; servers which allow <quote
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>anonymous &FTP;</quote
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> permit any user, not only users with accounts on the host, to browse the <quote
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>ftp</quote
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> archives and download files. Some &FTP; servers are configured to allow users to upload files. </para>
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<para
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>&FTP; is commonly used to retrieve information and obtain software stored in files at &FTP; archive sites throughout the world. </para>
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<para
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>Source: Paraphrased from <ulink url="http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/ftpdef.htm"
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> http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/ftpdef.htm</ulink
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> </para>
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<para
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>See the manual: <ulink url="man:/ftp"
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>ftp</ulink
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>.</para>
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</article>
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