Lecture slides providing an overview of FTP by "Dave H".

Very brief (1 page) overview of FTP. Part of "Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia"

Reference manual aiming to describe how FTP actually works (and doesn't work) in practice.

How to choose an FTP program. About tasks which can be performed by a special program called FTP Clients.

FAQ describing how to download from ftp sites with email.

One of the most useful services of the Internet is FTP, or File Transfer Protocol. This paper describes the client/server environment and explains FTP conventions and issues.