Need info on FTP

[John Quarterman]

FTP is the ARPA Internet File Transfer Protocol.  The name is also
used for the programs that implement it and provide user interfaces.
It is similar to Berkeley's rcp, except that rcp is for use only with
UNIX systems, while FTP can be used between many different kinds of
systems (and thus has many baroque and confusing modes of file transfer).

If you're on the DARPA Internet, say "man ftp".  If you're on the Telenet
part of CSNET, you may also be able to use FTP.  If you're on the Phonenet
part of CSNET or on UUCP, or BITNET, etc., you're out of luck, because
those networks do not supply a transport protocol that can support FTP.
UUCP, BITNET, DEC's ENET, etc., all support varieties of file transfer
protocols, but not FTP.

As somebody else has pointed out, this doesn't really fit on net.unix,
since if you've got it, it's in your manual, and if it's not in your
manual, you don't have it.
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John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 USA
jsq at ut-sally.ARPA, jsq at ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq