beam
[from Star Trek Classic's "Beam me up, Scotty!"]
- To transfer {softcopy} of a file electronically; most often in combining forms such as beam me a copy or beam that over to his site.
- Palm Pilot users very commonly use this term for the act of exchanging bits via the infrared links on their machines (this term seems to have originated with the ill-fated Newton Message Pad). Compare {blast}, {snarf}, {BLT}.
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