Re: TECH: files question

Roger Mills scripsit:
> I've just been given access to something that begins with ftp://....
> what exactly does that mean?  I can read it on my browser just fine. Is it
> something I could or should download to my own computer?  It's huge.
By reading it in your browser, you *have* downloaded it to your computer in
your browser's temporary storage area (cache).  You can save it from there
to your desktop or anywhere else if you want.

The difference between http:// and ftp:// URLs is important only to the
publishers of content, not to the consumers of it.

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"'My young friend, if you do not now, immediately and instantly, pull
as hard as ever you can, it is my opinion that your acquaintance in the
large-pattern leather ulster' (and by this he meant the Crocodile) 'will
jerk you into yonder limpid stream before you can say Jack Robinson.'"
        --the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake