file transfer protocol
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Noun (1)
- protocol that allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the networkSynonyms: FTPType of protocol, communications protocolKinds anonymous ftp, anonymous file transfer protocol
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“file transfer protocol” is listed under FTP.
Origin: acronym from File Transfer Protocol.
Computers An acronym for file transfer protocol, a standardized protocol used to allow transmission of files between computers; as, send me the file by ftp. It consists of a set of coded signals which are transmitted between computers, and which inform the receiving computer of the nature of a packet of information to be transmitted, and inform the transmitting computer when a packet has been successfully received. acronym
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
(FTP) A client-server protocol which allows a user on one computer to transfer files to and from another computer over a TCP/IP network. Also the client program the user executes to transfer files. It is defined in STD 9, RFC 959.
See also anonymous FTP, FSP, TFTP.
Unix manual page: ftp(1).
(1994-12-01)