What exactly is an FTP site anyway?
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, one of the oldest and most reliable protocols of the internet. This is the method by which a file can be copied from one computer to another. We now have some HTTP (web) sites containing eBooks as well, including our main site at http://www.gutenberg.net. You can use either HTTP or FTP. An FTP site, or FTP server, is a computer that holds files that people can upload and download. In the case of PG, the Posting Team upload our texts when they’re ready to two main FTP servers,
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, one of the oldest and most reliable protocols of the internet. This is the method by which a file can be copied from one computer to another. We now have some HTTP (web) sites containing eBooks as well, including our main site at http://www.gutenberg.org/. You can use either HTTP or FTP. An FTP site, or FTP server, is a computer that holds files that people can upload and download. In the case of PG, the Posting Team upload our texts when they’re ready to two main FTP servers, ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org and ftp://ftp.archive.org , which serve as our master copies. Other FTP sites around the world automatically download the files from these master sites, so they have a full set of PG publications for you to download. Because they only check for updates and new files at intervals, some FTP sites may be a day or two behind. Some FTP sites don’t have space available for everything, so they may hold only the zipped versions of the files. But most FTP sites
