4.4. Using The File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
From Chapter 3, "TCP/IP Fundamentals," you know that File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a subset of TCP/IP and that FTP is used during the transfer of files between UNIX boxes. In recent years, FTP has become a truly cross-platform protocol for file transfer. Because the Internet, and thus TCP/IP, use has skyrocketed, almost every client (and server) platform has implemented FTP. Windows is no exception. Its TCP/IP stack comes with a command-line ftp utility.
To start the ftp utility, enter ftp at a command prompt. The result is an ftp command prompt:
ftp>
From this command prompt, you can open a connection to an FTP server and upload and download files as well as change the way FTP operates. To display ...
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