[ Thanks to Ken Guest
for this link: ]
“Using a text based ftp client is not truly Linux specific,
however there is a chance that you may need to download a file from
an ftp server and don’t want the overhead of installing a GUI based
ftp client nor using a comparitively bloated webbrowser. Maybe you
want to use some of the power and features available in a ftp
client that for whatever reasons aren’t supported in the
webbrowsers.”
“Most text based ftp clients, regardless of the operating
system they run on, use the same command set that you type in to
instruct the client on what it is you want it to do – generally
speaking you should be able to learn how to use a text based ftp
client once and use that knowledge many times. I’m writing
this under the assumption that you are using Linux to connect to
ftp servers.”