File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a way to connect to remote computers to trasfer files from the specified host to your home machine. On TFN, you would connect to our ftp server, login, and once you do so, you can upload and download files as necessary. The instructions below will assume that you are using WS_FTP 9.0 to transfer files.
I will also give a quick tutorial on how to transfer files using windows XP's FTP client as well, for those who may not have ws_ftp 9.0.

SETTING UP WS_FTP: The first thing you must do in order to use WS_FTP 9.0 is to set it up so that you can connect to TFN. In order to do this, double click on the WS_FTP icon. When WS_FTP loads, you will want to connect to a site. In order to do this, you must click on "File>Connect>Connection Wizard" to set up a connection to a server.

In order to connect to TFN, click on "Connection Wizard" from the Connect menu. Once you do this, you will be presented with a Wizard that will ask you for a Site Name Enter 'TFN' so that you know what connection you will be dealing with. Then press Next.

Next, it will ask you for the Server address: Enter ftp.tfn.net as the address, then press Next.

Next, it will ask you to enter your user name and your password. Enter these, and press Next. It is not necessary to enter your password here if you do not want to, but be advised that if you do not do this, WS_FTP will ask for your password each time you connect. If you save your password, you will not have to enetr it each time.

Finally, WS_FTP will ask you what connection type you wish for the connection. These include FTP, FTP/SSL[AUTH], FTP/Implicit SSL and SFTP/SSH. for the purpose of this file, choose FTP as the connection menthod. Click Next, and your setup of WS_FTP will be complete.

CONNECT TO TFN VIA FTP: To connect to TFN using FTP, you can do one of the following things once you have saved your connection information:

Click on File>Site Manager, select the connection you want, and either double click the connection name (TFN) or click on the connection once then click the connect button. The connection will attempt to connect to the server.

Click on File, and select the connection from the list (TFN) - the connection will attempt to connect to the server.

Click on File>Connect and select the server (TFN) that you wish to connect to. This assumes that you have more then one host that you can connect to (as I do).

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When you get connected to TFN via FTP, you will notice that you have 2 windows. One window on the left, and one window on the right. The window on the left represents your computer, and is identified "My Computer" The window on the right represents your home directory on TFN. It will show a tab that has been named "TFN.Net" on the top, you will see something that identifies the directory you are sitting in, in my case it would show /home/bsbaker/ and each folder and file that resides in it. If, for example, you wanted to look at your public_html directory, you would double click the public_html folder. Then the directoy will change to /home/bsbaker/public_html. To move up in the directory tree, press the UP button in the directory window. Other commands for working in that window are represented by icons, which you can access by hovering over the icons with your mouse to find out what each one does. Both windows on both sides are exactly the same, and the only thing that matters is that if you want to perform an action on your local files, such as adding or deleting folders or files, you would use the "My Computer" window, and if you wanted to perform actions on your files on TFN, you would use the right window.

WS_FTP is very simple to use to upload and download files. Use the drop down menu on the "My Computer" side to select the drive(s) and or folder(s) that you want to upload or download to, and then use the dropdown menu on the server side to select the folders and or files that you want to transfer. You can simply double click the folder that the file is in, then on the "My Computer side" Click around until you find the file or files you want to transfer, and then transfer the files you need. This is done by selecting the file from the appropriate window, then dragging it to or from the server. WS_FTP automatically will determine whether a file is ASCII Text or Binary, based on the type of file it is - all you do is to drag and drop the file. Once this happens, the file(s) selected will be copied to the server. If you want to copy multiple files to TFN Press Control while clicking on the files, then Hold down Control and drag the files to the appropraite window. If WS_FTP does not recognize the file extension, it may ask you to ID the type of file it is before the transfer, but this would only be if the file type appears to be unknown.

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USING A COMMAND LINE FTP CLIENT TO ACCESS TFN: TFN users may also elect to use a command line FTP Client, like that which is found in Windows 98/NT/XP. To do this:

Go to Start/Run

type cmd

When you get a c:\ prompt, type ftp and press 'enter'

Your prompt will change to ftp> Now, type open ftp.tfn.net and press 'enter'

It will open connection to TFN's FTP server, Now enter your user name, and press 'enter'

It will accept your username...Now it will ask for your account password - Enter this and press 'enter'

Select your LOCAL directory for upload or download: for example, say you have a directory on your Home PC called TFN on your c: drive - If you do, you can use the command 'lcd c:\TFN' to change the directory of your local machine to that directory. do this and press 'enter'. TFN will confirm the directory change to c:\TFN. [do NOT use the quotes]

Select the Directory you want to get files from or put files into on TFN: For Example: if you wanted to place files into your public_html directory, you would type 'cd public_html' and press 'enter.' TFN will confirm the directory change to public_html.

SET the FILETYPE: If you plan on uploading any files that are text files, you should next issue the 'acii' command end press 'enter'. If instead you wish to upload acrchive files, such as .ZIP, .ARJ, .TAR, etc, or if you wish to upload pictures (like .gif or .jpg, .png, etc) issue the command 'binary' and press 'enter'

[NOTE: If it is a text file, its ascii, if it is a file that is anything else, it is binary]

SET HASH Marks: Command line FTP clients have a way to show users visual progress. This is done by issuing the command 'hash' If you issue this command, TFN will tell you "hash mark printing on" This will allow you to see the progress of uploading or downloading files with a series of hash marks that look like this "########################" when the file is complete, you will be notified of the number of bytes that habe been transferred.

PUT or GET the files Online: if you want to upload a file, you want to next issue the command 'put file1' If you want to download a file, you would want to issue the command 'get file1'

The files will transfer and then ftp will the tell you how the file did. Use the 'dir' command to see the files in the destination directory - The file should be there.

SIGN OFF FTP: Issue the command 'bye' and press 'enter'. When your C:\ prompt returns, type 'exit' and press enter - you will then be returned to your desktop.