What do these terms mean? Here is a brief glossary of FTP terms: download: the download function lets the user copy a file from another computer to his or her own computer. publish: publish is just another way of saying upload. transfer: transfer is the command to actually copy the file from one computer to another. upload: the upload function lets a user copy a file from his or her own computer to another computer connected to the internet.

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