[ale] Question about ftp clients

[Michael Phillips]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:26:06PM -0400, James P. Kinney III spake thusly:
> 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.
> 

Yes, slack space being the remainder of the block. I have always understood that they did not get transferred, however I need to find some documentation that states so. So far, google has not helped with finding that information.

TIA

MIke
> 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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