LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) (12/06/89)
I have seen various seemingly PD versions of TELNET, FTP etc for the PC around. How do these work? Does my PC need to be on a network, and if so, why? How does the actual connection to the outside world work? Do I just dial a phone number to get me through to a node on a network somewhere else, or is there more (or less) to it? What is the advantage of using such a version of FTP versus using FTP on a larger computer, then downloading using, say, KERMIT? Please post any replies - I hope I'm not the only person who doesn't quite know what is going on. Thanks. Richard Stanton pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu