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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<title>net2ftp help</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css.php?ltr=ltr" />
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<body style="margin-left: 70px; margin-right: 70px;">
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<div class="header21">What is FTP?</div>
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You want to build a website, so you start creating web pages on your computer.<br /><br />
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Next, you need to publish them: you need to put those pages on a web server so that everyone would be able to view them.<br /><br />
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To transfer the files from your computer to that web server, a special protocol (transfer method) is used: FTP - the File Transfer Protocol.
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This protocol was designed to be able to handle big files; it can for example resume a transfer if it was interrupted in the middle.
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<br /><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<script type="text/javascript"><!--
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google_color_border = "E5E5E5";
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google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
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google_color_link = "0000FF";
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google_color_text = "000000";
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google_color_url = "008000";
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<script type="text/javascript"
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src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
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</div>
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<div class="header21">What is net2ftp?</div>
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The normal way to connect to your FTP server is to use an FTP client and to communicate via the FTP protocol. This is however not always possible:
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<ul>
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<li>you may be behind a corporate firewall at work, which may block the FTP communications;</li>
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<li>you may be on holiday and connecting to the internet via a CyberCafe, where you may not be allowed to install an FTP client.</li>
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</ul><br />
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When you use net2ftp these problems are solved: you connect to net2ftp using a regular web browser, and net2ftp translates your requests and takes care of the FTP communication.<br /><br />
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net2ftp also provides additional features, on top of the regular FTP features: the possibility to edit code using your web browser, to view the code with syntax highlighting, to upload-and-unzip archives, and to search for words on the FTP server.<br /><br />
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<br /><br />
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<div class="header21">Icons used</div>
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net2ftp uses the beautiful icons made by <a href="http://www.icon-king.com">David Vignoni</a> for <a href="http://www.kde.org">KDE</a>.<br /><br />
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Their meaning should be pretty straight-forward, but just in case, here are the conventions used:<br /><br />
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<img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/back.png" alt="Icon" /> Cancel and go back<br />
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<img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/button_ok.png" alt="Icon" /> Execute the action<br />
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<img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/filesave.png" alt="Icon" /> Save the file<br />
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<img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/bookmark.png" alt="Icon" /> Bookmark the page<br />
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<img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/reload.png" alt="Icon" /> Refresh the page<br />
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<img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/exit.png" alt="Icon" /> Logout<br /><br />
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All icons will also display a tooltip with additional information if you keep your mouse pointer on the button for a second, without clicking on it.<br />
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Try with this icon: <img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/bookmark.png" alt="Bookmark this page" />
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<br /><br />
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<div style="font-size: 80%; margin-left: 20px;">
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Note: these PNG icons have transparent regions which are not displayed correctly on Internet Explorer on this Help page: the transparent regions appear as grey.
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This is a bug specific to Internet Explorer; refer to the <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294714">Microsoft website</a> for more details.
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In net2ftp itself however, a fix has been applied which corrects this.
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</div>
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<br /><br />
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<div class="header21">Logging in</div>
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Enter your FTP server, username and password.
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The FTP server name can be "ftp.my-domain.com" if you have your own domain name.
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If you don't have your own domain name, then it depends on your web hosting company.
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It can be for example "ftp.geocities.com" or "ftp-www.earthlink.net".
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<br /><br />
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If you don't know your FTP server, username or password, then check out the support pages of your hosting company or contact their helpdesk.<br />
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<br /><br />
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<div class="header21">Browsing the FTP server</div>
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The first time you log in, you will see the contents of the root directory "/".
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To go to a subdirectory, simply click on the subdirectory's name.
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To go up to the parent directory, click on the top row with the label Up.
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If you know the name of the subdirectory you want to go to, you can also enter that name directly in the textbox on top of the page, and press ENTER.<br />
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If you don't know the name exactly, click on <img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/view_tree.png" alt="Icon" />.
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A window will pop up, which allows you to browse the FTP server and choose a directory.
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Double-click on a subdirectory to go to that subdirectory. To go up, double-click on "..".
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Once you are in the subdirectory you wanted to find, click on Choose.
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The subdirectory name will be copied from the popup to the main window.
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<br /><br />
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It can happen that the FTP server returns the list of directories and files in an uncommon format.
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In that case net2ftp shows you the lines bottom of the screen, under the heading "FTP server's output which is not recognized is shown below".
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<br /><br />
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If you want this fixed please contact the net2ftp developers.
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They will analyse the output of your FTP server and improve the way net2ftp scans it.
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<br /><br />
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<div class="header21">Upload files, upload-and-unzip archives</div>
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On the Browse Screen, click on the Upload button to go to the Upload Screen.<br /><br />
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There is one column on the left to upload files, and there can also be a right column to upload-and-unzip archives.<br /><br />
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Click on the Browse button to specify which file on your computer you want to upload or upload-and-unzip to the FTP server.<br /><br />
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Once you are ready to start the upload, click on <img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/button_ok.png" alt="Icon" />.<br /><br />
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The result screen will tell you if the upload was successful or not.<br />
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To upload a file, you need write permissions on that directory of the FTP server. <br />
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The file should also not be too big, as on most web servers the execution time of a script may be limited to 30 seconds.<br />
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<br /><br />
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<div class="header21">Upload files using a Java applet (JUpload)</div>
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On the Browse Screen, click on the Java Upload button.<br /><br />
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Click on the Add button to add directories and files to the upload queue (top left).<br />
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When you select a directory, all the files inside will be transferred, and subdirectories will be created automatically.<br /><br />
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Once you are ready to start the upload, click on the Upload button.<br /><br />
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The results of the upload are printed just below the upload queue (bottom left).<br />
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Two upload progress bars are displayed on the right: one indicating the progress of the current file, and the other indicating the total progress.<br /><br />
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As for the normal upload, the maximum filesize and maximum execution time is limited; by default this is 2 MB and 30 seconds.<br />
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If the total size of the files in the upload queue is larger than a certain limit, the Java Applet will split the request in several smaller parts.<br />
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<div class="header21">Downloading and zipping</div>
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To download a file, simply click on its filename.<br /><br />
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To zip-and-download files and directories, select them on the Browse Screen and click on Download.<br />
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The directories and their contents will be retrieved and zipped.<br />
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A popup window will ask you where you would like to save the Zip file on your computer.<br /><br />
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Note that if the files inside are too big, the script will timeout and you won't be able to download anything.<br />
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If this happens, try again with less directories and omit those which contain big files.<br /><br />
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You can also zip files and email them in attachment, or save them on the FTP server.<br />
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On the Browse Screen, select the directories and files and click on Zip.<br />
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<div class="header21">View code with syntax highlighting</div>
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On the Browse Screen, click on the View link on the same line as the filename.<br />
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<div class="header21">Edit text</div>
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On the Browse Screen, click on the Edit link on the same line as the filename.<br />
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Edit the text and press <img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/filesave.png" alt="Icon" /> to save the changes (you'll need write permissions for that). <br /><br />
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Depending on the type of file you're editing, alternative textareas can be used:<br />
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<li> For HTML files, there are 2 WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) textareas: <a href="http://www.fckeditor.net">FCKEditor</a> and <a href="http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/">TinyMCE</a>. </li>
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<li> To edit code with syntax highlighting use CodePress; it can highlight PHP, Javascript, Java and HTML code. </li>
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</ul>
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<div class="header21">Copy, move, delete</div>
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Select some files or directories and click on the Copy, Move or Delete button.<br /><br />
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If you copy or move, then choose the target directory.
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This can be different for each directory or file that you selected.
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To set all target directories to the same value, enter the target directory in the top textbox and click on the button "Set all targetdirectories".<br /><br />
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If you don't know the exact name of the target directory, click on <img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/view_tree.png" alt="Icon" />. A window will pop up, which allows you to browse the FTP server and choose a directory. Double-click on a subdirectory to go to that subdirectory. To go up, double-click on "..". Once you are in the subdirectory you wanted to find, click on Choose. The subdirectory name will be copied from the popup to the main window.<br />
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To copy or move files to a second FTP server, enter the FTP server name, username and password on top.<br />
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You need write permissions to be able to copy or move files to a directory.<br /><br />
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Once you are ready, click on <img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/button_ok.png" alt="Icon" />.<br /><br />
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The result screen will tell you if the action was successful or not.
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If the files were too big, the script will run until the timeout is reached.
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On most web servers the execution time of a script is limited to 30 seconds.
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<br /><br />
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<div class="header21">Rename</div>
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Select directories or files and click on Rename on the Browse Screen.<br />
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The next screen will ask for the new names.<br />
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Fill these in and click on <img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/button_ok.png" alt="Icon" />.
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<div class="header21">Chmod</div>
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Select directories or files and click on Chmod on the Browse Screen.<br />
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The next screen show the current permissions; select or unselect the checkboxes which represent a permission.<br />
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Click on <img src="../../skins/blue/images/actions/button_ok.png" alt="Icon" />.<br /><br />
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Note that for the moment directories are not chmodded recursively -- subdirectories and files will remain unaffected. In the future, recursive chmodding will be added to net2ftp.<br />
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<br /><br />
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<div class="header21">Update a file (beta function)</div>
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This function is still in development, use it at your own risk. It can be activated or deactivated by the administrator in settings.inc.php.<br /><br />
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The purpose of this function is to merge a new version of a text file with an older version stored on the FTP server.<br /><br />
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On the Browse Screen, click on Update link on the same line as the filename.<br />
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<li> First, upload the new file.</li>
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<li> net2ftp will compare the old file stored on the FTP server with the new file that was uploaded, and a the code will be printed the changes highlighted in red and green.
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There are only 2 kinds of changes: a line can be deleted or added -- more complex changes such as move or edit are not foreseen, they're handled as a delete + an add.
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Select the changes and indicate if you accept or reject them. By default all changes are marked as accepted.</li>
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<li> Once you're done, submit the page, and the merged text will be shown in the Edit Screen.
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At this point, nothing is saved yet, the original file is not yet overwritten. Once you've reviewed the changes, save them.</li>
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</ul>
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<div class="header21">Access keys</div>
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Since version 0.81, most actions can be executed with the keyboard.<br />
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On Windows, use ALT + a letter. On Apple computers, use CTRL + a letter.<br />
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On Internet Explorer, ALT + a letter will only focus on the page element; press ENTER to execute the action.<br /><br />
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Which letter can be used is shown in the tooltip.<br />
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For example: to go back, the tooltip is "Back (accesskey b)".<br />
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To display a tooltip, leave your mouse cursor for a few seconds over an icon or link without clicking it.<br /><br />
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Internet Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla browsers support Access Keys, but Opera doesn't.
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<div class="header21">Daily consumption limit</div>
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Since version 0.81, the Administrator can choose to restrict each user's daily data transfer volume and script execution time.<br />
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By default the data transfer volume is set to 50 MB per day and the script execution time to 2500 seconds per day - but this may be changed by the Administrator.<br />
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Both figures are logged per IP address, and per FTP server.<br /><br />
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Once the daily consumption limit is reached, you will still be able to browse FTP servers, but the transfer of data to/from the server will be blocked.<br />
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If you need unrestricted access to net2ftp, contact your net2ftp Administrator or install net2ftp on your own web server.<br />
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