Q. How to reduce total amount of disk space in FTP?

FTP service compress files to reduce total amount of disk space the files require. Before transferring a file user should tell FTP that file contains ASCII text or nontext file. FTP presumes to perform ASCII transfers unless user enters the binary command.

There are various FTP programs that you can download from Internet. Windows has its own command line based FTP program. To execute it, select Run from Windows taskbar and type FTP and press enter. By typing open command you can connect to any ftp server. To connect to FTP server you should have a login name and password. Most of the FTP servers allow anonymous connections. In this case username is anonymous and password is e-mail address. Another vital FTP program, which is available as a shareware, is WSFTP. Using this window based program it's easier to maintain your web site.