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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: FTP
Summary: It's part of the Internet suite
Message-ID: <85@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 27 Oct 89 05:28:25 GMT
References: <2110@ursa.UUCP>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <2110@ursa.UUCP> sean@ursa.UUCP (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>Can anyone give me details on the "anonymous ftp" concept...

FTP is Internet's primary File Transfer Protocol.
You have to have IP access to the Internetwork in order to use it
directly; it is not available to uucp-only (or BITNET, or ...)
sites.

Anonymous FTP is a way to make a select group of files publicly
accessible to others who do not have specific individual
authorizations on a machine.

>	How do you setup FTP to access sites over the net?

This is taken care of when a machine is configured to attach to
Internet.

>	Do I need the source to ftp to do this ?

No, just an executable.  :-)
					-=EPS=-

P.S. You might want to get in touch with the folks at NYSERNET;
they're the regional NSF network in your area, and I'm sure
they'd be happy to answer questions, or send you some literature.

   NYSERNet Inc.
   1095 Avenue of the Americas
   New York, NY 10036