A powerful aspect of this service is the option to send electronic files to a person's e-mail address. For more information about email, see Module 1 or Electronic Mail from Using the Internet. FTP FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. This is both a program and the method used to transfer files between computers on the Internet. Anonymous FTP is an option that allows any users to transfer files from thousands of computers on the Internet to their personal computer account.
File transfer is quite rapid.
FTP sites contain books, journals, software, games, images, sounds, multimedia, coursework, data sets, and more. On the University network, FTP software is loaded into the IBM, UNIX, and VAX machines. If your computer is directly connected to the Internet via an ethernet cable, you can use one of several PC software programs such as WinFTP for Windows. You can also gain access to FTP files via search engines such as Snoopie on the World Wide Web. This last option is easiest because you do not need to know FTP program commands.