[ale] Question about ftp clients

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Jun 11 17:26:06 EDT 2002


Can you elaborate more on "slackspace"? Are you referring to half-used
blocks on the hard drive? If so, no, they do not get transferred as they
are a function of the file-system and formatting.

On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 13:46, Michael Phillips wrote:
> We have a matter at work involving security and I am hoping someone here can point me to supporting documentation:
> 
> When using an ftp client (Winders, WU-FTP etc) does the file transfer involve only the file itself or will any slackspace involved with the file transfer as well?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Mike
> 
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