Ottawa Canada Dear Richard:
FTP is short for File Transfer Program, a time-tested program for moving big, bulky, files around on the Internet and BITNET or USENET or ARPANET before it. Arpanet was run by the Advanced Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defence, USENET was a network consisting of cooperating mostly UNIX computers both run by private industry, government and educational and research institutions, BITNET was a network arranged sort of like the branches of a tree consisting of computers of many different types, mostly at educational institutions, but some in government and private industry, that evolved into the Internet as we know it today. In the US, the root of the BITNET Tree was at City University of New York. In Canada, it was at the University of Guelph, Ontario. FTP will let authorized users download text or binary files and upload text or binary files, but typically just to a special directory called incoming unless you have a user-id and password on the system you are FTP-ing from/to. FTP is about as dumb as an ox but can work like one too. Hope this explains it. Brian -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/433 - Release Date: 30/08/2006 ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
