Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Free Software for FTP (i.e., uploading files)

FTP = File Transfer Protocol. You can use this kind of software to transfer your programs to the CJSF upload site. However, software can be uncooperative - keeps changing and then you lose the ability to use it the way you did before.

Lately, I have been using and recommending FireFTP - a plug-in to the Mozilla/Firefox web browser. However, Firefox updated itself in my computer and became incompatible with Fireftp.

Luckily, I was able to locate a free program called FileZilla, which can be downloaded from Sourceforge.net. It is not terribly different from FireFTP, and it does work. Here's a page where it can be downloaded - (or, you can just google sourceforge filezilla) http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/

Here's a page that tells you how to use it: http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Using#Transferring_files

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