Q. Explain rudimentary file formats?
FTP only understands two rudimentary file formats. It classifies every file either as a text file or a binary file. A text file comprise a sequence of characters collected into lines. Even though computers used ASCII encoding for text files, FTP includes commands to translate between ASCII and other character encoding. FTP uses classification binary file for all non-text files. The user should specify binary for any file which contains:
- A computer program
- Audio data
- A graphic or video image
- A spreadsheet
- A document from a word processor
- A compressed file