Grid Acronym Soup (GAS)
F
Factory - creates an object conforming to a given interface class.
FIRST - Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FTREE - Flexible TREE structured backend to LDAP
FTP-Lite
FTP-Lite is a simple implementation of GridFTP. It provides a blocking, UNIX-like interface to the protocol. The interface is designed to be easily used by single-threaded applications. In particular, FTP-Lite is used by the Pluggable File System to attach FTP services to ordinary POSIX programs.
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Acknowledgments:
Some original material is from the GridPP Web site maintained by Joe Foster, University of Manchester. Additions by Rob Allan, Dharmesh Chohan, Adrian Fish and Audrienne Cutajar Bezzina.

