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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting two computers to talk to each other
Date: 29 Jan 2014 18:50:48 GMT
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On 2014-01-29, David Downing <david.h.downing@gmail.com> wrote:
> I realize this is a very basic question, but it concerns something I
> never had to do before now. Obviously, since I'm here, I have a Mac. I
> recently bought a secondhand PC so I could learn to use a piece of
> software that does;t run on the Mac. I have a need to send files from
> my Mac to the PC. So far, I've been doing via email -- emailing the
> files to myself as attachments, then opening the emails on the PC and
> downloading the attached files. But there's gotta be a better way that
> involves actually connecting the two computers to each other and
> sending the files directly. Ideally, I'd like one computer to show up
> as an icon on the other computer's desktop, so that I could directly
> move files back and forth. How is this done?

Here are the basics: <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5884>

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