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In page structure, each file is divided into a number of pages where each page contains a page
number and a page header. These pages can be accessed sequentially as well as randomly.
Transmission Mode: � FTP uses three types of transmission modes, namely, stream mode, block
mode and compressed mode. The default mode of transmission is the stream mode, which sends
the data as a continuous pattern of bytes. In case the data contains only a stream of bytes, then no
end-of-file (closing of data connection) is required; the end of file is simply indicated by closing
of connection by the sender. In the block mode ...