FTP is the most basic tool for moving bulk data between two systems. You can either use a command mode FTP which comes on UNIX or Windows-95 or a screen mode FTP such as Fetch (for Macs) or WS_FTP32 (for Windows-95). Regardless of the interface, all FTP programs have the same goal of getting data from one system to another by either �uploading� (or �put�ing) or downloading (�get�ing) a file.

FTP handles data conversions for text files and has a binary mode for raw data files such as image files.