FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. This protocol is a special protocol which is designed to facilitate copying information between computers through the Internet. Whenever you download a file from the Internet, you are probably using a form of the FTP protocol. Much of the time, FTP happens automatically through Web browsers, but there are special FTP programs as well. These FTP clients look like file management programs (with the directory tree structure and all!) except they also allow you to connect to a remote computer as well, and look at the file structure of that computer. Of course the purpose of this is so you can copy and move files between computers. An FTP program often looks like a file management program with TWO directory structures. You might use such a program if you have access to two Internet computers, and you want to back up some of your files on the other computer. The information you are reading now was created on a unix computer through Telnet, then FTPd to a couple of other computers for review!