beam

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This is the JargonFile (V4.00) entry for beam - Next: beanie key, Prev: BBS
:beam: /vt./ [from Star Trek Classics "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. Compare blast, snarf, BLT.
* (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain)


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