What is FTP?

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Explained:

File Transfer Protocol (FTP), a standard Internet protocol, is the simplest way to exchange files between computers on the Internet. Like the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which transfers displayable Web pages and related files, and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), which transfers e-mail, FTP is an application protocol that uses the Internet's TCP/IP protocols. FTP is commonly used to transfer Web page files from their creator to the computer that acts as their server for everyone on the Internet. It's also commonly used to download programs and other files to your computer from other servers.

As a user, you can use FTP with a simple command line interface (for example, from the Windows MS-DOS Prompt window) or with a commercial program that offers a graphical user interface. Your Web browser can also make FTP requests to download programs you select from a Web page. Using FTP, you can also update (delete, rename, move, and copy) files at a server. You need to logon to an FTP server. However, publicly available files are easily accessed using anonymous FTP (The Digital Deli's FTP Server is NOT a public, anonymously accessed server).

Basic FTP support is usually provided as part of a suite of programs that come with TCP/IP. However, any FTP client program with a graphical user interface usually must be downloaded from the company that makes it. (See Below for Our Recommendations)

How To Use A Typical FTP Client Program to Access The Digital Deli's Vast Golden Age Radio FTP Holdings.

The Digital Deli FTP Client Tutorial:

USERID: Helen Smith
PASSWORD: helensmith4329
Host IP Address: 64.27.7.34

Zone 2 (The Yellow Zone from above) is the area you'll use to navigate YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER's disk drives, folders and file stuctures. This area translates to pretty much to the file area interface you're accustomed to seeing from your Windows, OS/X or Linux file exploring windows.

Zone 3 (The Green Zone from above) is the area you'll use to navigate OUR SERVER's folders and file stuctures. This is the Zone that will be new in your experience. It's a direct depiction of the actual folders and files we establish for your use on our Server.

Zone 4 (The Pink Zone from above) will also be new to your experience of FTP Client usage and navigation. Zone 4 is available in three views, in most FTP Client applications:

1. The Transfer Manager View (above) - for realtime views of your download and upload sessions' progress.

2. The Transfer History View (above) - for capturing and reviewing all of your previous upload and download sessions. and . .

3. The Connection View (above) - for viewing realtime commands as they are processed on both your end (your Local Computer) and on our end (the command messages, status, and remaining gigabytes, megabytes and kilobytes remaining in your account, decremented in real time for each and every file or action processed)

How to Set Up A New Account.

Where to Access The Connection Wizard

A Typical Connection Pop Up Connection Dialogue

Enter the Site Name you wish to assign to this Account

Provide the Unigue Server Host IP Address to Access the New Site

Provide A User Name [USERID] and Password Assigned to Your New Subscriber Account

Select A Connection Type

Review the Summary Screen for Your New FTP Account Connection Settings

Select 'Site Manager' or One of the Drop Down Site Choices to Connect to Your Chosen Site

The Digital Deli FTP Site, Highlighted

A Successful Connection Shows the Target Server's Folders in Interface Zone 3

Select the 'Connection Log Tab' to See the Target Site Messages and Status Codes

Use Zone 2, 'Your Computer', to Navigate to the Area You'll Download 'TO'

The Digital Deli FTP Server Zone 3 Interface Window (once Connected)

Folder	Holdings Contents
Golden Age Radio Scripts	The Digital Deli's growing Collection of over 1700 Radio and TV Episode Scripts from The Golden Age of Radio
Golden Age Radio By Genre	Still under development, The Digital Deli's 'By Genre' Collection will eventually serve as a separate mirror of the entire Collection, arranged by Genre, instead of Aphabetically or by Country of Origin.
Golden Age Radio Film	The Digital Deli's Collection of over 2700 Public Domain Film Clips, Kinescopes, Industrial Films, Educational Films, and Historic Clips and NewsReels from The Golden Age of Radio Era.
Radio USA 1	The Digital Deli's U.S.A. origin Golden Age Radio Holdings organized Alphabetically from '0' [Zero], to 'F'.
Radio USA 2	The Digital Deli's U.S.A. origin Golden Age Radio Holdings organized Alphabetically from 'G' to 'R'.
Radio USA 3	The Digital Deli's U.S.A. origin Golden Age Radio Holdings organized Alphabetically from 'S' to 'Z'.
Radio Non-USA	The Digital Deli's NON-U.S.A. origin Golden Age Radio Holdings organized Alphabetically by Country of Origin
New This Month	These folders (currently contained within the Radio USA 2 folder structure) are where you'll find the Newest Recordings to have entered The Collection during the previous Month
Star Showcase	These folders are an innovation of The Digital Deli. They Showcase, by folder, a respective Folder Artist's body of work from The Golden Age of Radio
Subscriber Uploads	These folders--accessible by only those subscribers with Upload Privileges--contain Fills and Upgrades to The Digital Deli Collection, contributed by subscribers wishing to add to, or enhance the quality and breadth of our existing holdings. We select our Contributing Upload Subscribers from Subscribers with both established reputations within the Collector Community as well as significant holdings of their own from which to draw upon to further enhance our own growing collection. The existing Subscriber Contributors have over 150 years of Golden Age Radio Collecting expertise and experience between them.

The Zone 3 [Server] Window, with Radio_USA_1 Selected

The '0' to 'F' Folders Under Radio_USA_1

Select and Highlight the A-C Holdings Folder

The 477 Show and Programme Holdings Folders under 'A' to 'C'

Select the 'Abbott and Costello' Folder

The Contents of the 'Abbott and Costello' Holdings Folder

1. By Individual episode

2. By A Range of episodes

3. By Entire Show or Programme folder

4. By Multiple Show or Programme folders

Go Back to the Abbott and Costello folder, Open It, then Highlight Your Selection

Clicking the Left Green Arrow Begins the Download to YOUR Computer from OUR Server

You Can Check the Status of Your Download in the 'Connection Log Tab' View in Zone 4


Your Download Finishes, Updating the Connection Log Automatically

Simply Find and Single Left Click The 'Disconnect' Icon in Zone 1

FTP Clients:

• Automatically retries connections
• Automatically retries downloads and uploads
• Automatically resumes transfers if possible
• Can be transferring queued files to/from FOUR FTP servers simultaneously while browsing a fifth
• Can download files off the Web using HTTP, with full reconnection/resumption capabilities
• Gives you extensive control over your FTP sessions and transfers.