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Hi Friends,

Currently in my company they are using FTP. Basically i want to know , What is FTP? and which kind of scenarious it is used. Can any one explain me in detail.

Regards,

Niki.

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Hi,

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocal. This is used to transfer files from one server to another server.

This will be very handy when you need to transfer file from say your SAP application server to another SAP or non SAP machine(a Warehouse system).

Background Info:

There are MANY methods for sharing information on the Internet. FTP is yet another. With FTP, however, the point is to have direct control over an individual file. You specify exactly where the file comes from and specify exactly where the file will go.

The most direct way to use FTP is to have a program designed to perform FTPs directly. A shareware program called WinFTP . Alternatively, if you have a Mac system, pick up your version of Fetch.

You can also use netscape to perform ftp tranfers. Just open a URL like the following one:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com

It is composed of "ftp://" and the host name of the anonymous ftp server. This will put you in the server's startup directory. Doing it this way makes browsing the server nice, and netscape will try to display any file that it is able to before you have to save it to your hard drive as a separate file, which you do with the Save As command under the Netscape file menu. For this Microsoft example, the file called dirmap.htm is a helpful directory of their server.

Two Kinds of FTPing:

There are two basic kinds of files, text and binary. There is an FTP method for each. Pictures, sounds and programs are binary files. Text files are (you guessed it) text files! (That is, the file contains only ascii text.) If you try to transfer a binary file using text transfer mode, it won't work. Transfering a text file using binary mode is not advised.

Software Databases:

"Archie" is a database of files available from a large number of anonymous FTP servers. Check out this WWW Archie page. You use Archie when you know the name of a file that you want, but you don't know where it is stored. Try using archie to search for a file called "doom" without the quotes. This is a popular game played by people all over the world.

Another good place to look for PC specific software is at the PC Harvest Software Broker. Here is Yahoo's list of Mac Archives.

Refer

http://abap4.tripod.com/FTP_Using_SAP_Functions.html

and

http://www.sap-img.com/ab003.htm

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Former Member
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Hi,

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocal. This is used to transfer files from one server to another server.

This will be very handy when you need to transfer file from say your SAP application server to another SAP or non SAP machine(a Warehouse system).

Background Info:

There are MANY methods for sharing information on the Internet. FTP is yet another. With FTP, however, the point is to have direct control over an individual file. You specify exactly where the file comes from and specify exactly where the file will go.

The most direct way to use FTP is to have a program designed to perform FTPs directly. A shareware program called WinFTP . Alternatively, if you have a Mac system, pick up your version of Fetch.

You can also use netscape to perform ftp tranfers. Just open a URL like the following one:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com

It is composed of "ftp://" and the host name of the anonymous ftp server. This will put you in the server's startup directory. Doing it this way makes browsing the server nice, and netscape will try to display any file that it is able to before you have to save it to your hard drive as a separate file, which you do with the Save As command under the Netscape file menu. For this Microsoft example, the file called dirmap.htm is a helpful directory of their server.

Two Kinds of FTPing:

There are two basic kinds of files, text and binary. There is an FTP method for each. Pictures, sounds and programs are binary files. Text files are (you guessed it) text files! (That is, the file contains only ascii text.) If you try to transfer a binary file using text transfer mode, it won't work. Transfering a text file using binary mode is not advised.

Software Databases:

"Archie" is a database of files available from a large number of anonymous FTP servers. Check out this WWW Archie page. You use Archie when you know the name of a file that you want, but you don't know where it is stored. Try using archie to search for a file called "doom" without the quotes. This is a popular game played by people all over the world.

Another good place to look for PC specific software is at the PC Harvest Software Broker. Here is Yahoo's list of Mac Archives.

Refer

http://abap4.tripod.com/FTP_Using_SAP_Functions.html

and

http://www.sap-img.com/ab003.htm

Former Member
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FTP in context to SAP?