Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> After reading several dozen forum posts, it seems nobody has a really 
> good solution for doing this.

  You can thank Windows for this. Traditionally in the unix world
transferring files from one computer to another has been one of the
most basic features (and it's the reason why there are so many ways
of doing that, including rsync, rcp, scp, ftp, sftp, wget, and so on).
Of course this requires for one of the computers to act as a server.
This is made difficult in Windows. (Yes, I know it's not impossible.
I didn't say that.)

  The other traditional method to send files is through irc. This has
worked in the unix world for something like 20 years. Given that irc is
mostly dead nowadays (it's too "old-fashioned") most people don't even
know what it is. This works perfectly in Windows too, if only irc was
still popular there.

  One of the most common modern variants of this, one which also works
easily in Windows, is skype. Of course many people refuse to use skype
out of principle (the same kind of principle as avoiding facebook).

  If you are regularly transferring files to someone, just make him install
skype.

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                                                          - Warp

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