It produces objects that can be run in the middle tier. This is not connecting to an NT FTP Server. This is going to a UNIX FTP Server. Can't give you more info than that right now. The emulator does not support ole or dde.
Arbitrary shutdown can be pretty brutal.
Bill Vaughn's Hitchhikers Guide to Data Access is a great resource for learning about these. Not sure, but if was really a VB5 control then I would expect it to be in VB6. Long bitstring manipulation is possible in VB, but not easy. There have been articles in VBPJ that cover the subject, I know. I notice that when adding a new template to a WebClass, if the template is not a full HTML document, VB will automatically make it one.