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People who work on website organizing must have been familiar with File Transfer Protocol or FTP as a protocol to send file from local computer to server. This Protocol is widely used to download and upload files.

File delivery via FTP required software supporter to access FTP. Tools like WS_FTP and Smart FTP is two from many available FTP tools in internet. Mostly of this tools can be downloaded as shareware or trial. To be able to use more than 30 day you have to pay.

If you wish a free one, Microsoft has provided it. This software is available in default Windows OS and can be accessed from Command Prompt. Follow steps below to run:

1. Run Command Prompt from menu [Start ] > [All Programs] > [Accessories] > [Command Prompt]
2. At Command Prompt window type [ ftp ] command.
3. To run the connection to FTP server, type command: [ open ftp.yourdomainname.com ]
4. After a while you will connect to your FTP server marked with a welcome message from the server and username request. Enter your username in the FTP server following with your password.
5. To enter into the certain directory in server, enter command: [ cd directoryname ] for example, cd public_html/ or cd public_html/wp/
6. If you have entered a directory, type the command with format: [ send filename ] to send the file to the current directory on the server. For example, send D:\images\mypic.jpg
7. If you wish to download file from server, type the comand with format: recv filename.jpg or get filename.jpg for example, get public_html/wp/sidebar.php
8. To quit FTP connection, type disconnect or close. You can also to directly terminate the session and exit FTP by quit or bye command.