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file transfer

A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | 369 words | Copyright

file transfer The act or process of transferring a file from one computer system to another, usually but not necessarily across a network. The problems associated with a file transfer between two identical computer systems are minimal, but they increase when the systems use different hardware and run under different operating systems. See also file transfer protocol.

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