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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>beam</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="BDFL.html" title="BDFL"/><link rel="next" href="beanie-key.html" title="beanie key"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">beam</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BDFL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beanie-key.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="beam"/><dt xmlns="" id="beam"><b>beam</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from Star Trek Classic's “<span class="quote">Beam me up, Scotty!</span>”]
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</p></dd><dd><p> 1. To transfer <a href="../S/softcopy.html"><i class="glossterm">softcopy</i></a> of a file
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electronically; most often in combining forms such as <span class="firstterm">beam me a copy</span> or <span class="firstterm">beam that over to his site</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Palm Pilot users very commonly use this term for the act of
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exchanging bits via the infrared links on their machines (this term seems
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to have originated with the ill-fated Newton Message Pad). Compare
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<a href="blast.html"><i class="glossterm">blast</i></a>, <a href="../S/snarf.html"><i class="glossterm">snarf</i></a>,
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<a href="BLT.html"><i class="glossterm">BLT</i></a>. </p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BDFL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="beanie-key.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BDFL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> beanie key</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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