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vt. [from Star Trek Classic's Beam me up, Scotty! ] 1. To transfer softcopy
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of a file electronically; most often in combining forms such as beam me a
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copy or beam that over to his site. 2. Palm Pilot users very commonly use
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this term for the act of exchanging bits via the infrared links on their
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machines (this term seems to have originated with the ill-fated Newton
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Message Pad). Compare blast , snarf , BLT.
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