FTP understands two basic file formats only. It classifies every file either a binary file or a text file. A text file has a sequence of characters gather into lines. Though computers used ASCII encoding for text files, FTP comprise commands to translate between ASCII and other character encoding. FTP employees the classification binary file for all non text files. The user has to specify binary for any file which contains:
- A computer program
- Audio data
- A graphic or video image
- A spreadsheet
- A document from a word processor
- A compressed file
FTP service compress files to decrees the total amount of disk space the files needed. Before transferring a file user has to tell FTP that the file contains ASCII text or nontext files. FTP supposes to perform ASCII transfers unless the user enters the binary command.
There are several FTP programs which you can download from the Internet. Windows contains its own command line based FTP program. In order to execute it, choose Run from Windows taskbar & type FTP and press enter. Through typing open command you can linked to any ftp server. In order to connect to FTP server you should have a login name and the password. Mostly FTP servers let anonymous connections. In this case username is anonymous & password is your e-mail address.
Another significant FTP program, which is obtainable as a shareware, is WSFTP. By using this window based program it is simple to maintain your web site.