David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

What is FTP Protocol? FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is, as its name indicates, a protocol for transferring files. The implementation of FTP dates from 1971, when a file transfer system (described in ...

Anyone know if the FTP protocol spec has a threshold for file name lengths?<BR><BR>I have a few OS X based FTP clients who will be transfersing files with 50+ chars in their file names via FTP to each ...