Re: Re[2]: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Michael Grant wrote:
...
> I have long been plagued by the problem if sitting in a room or on a 
> boat with someone, 2 devices right next to one another, and no trivially 
> easy way to send a file from one device to the other without say first 
> uploading it to some mutual third party (e.g. whatsapp).

  USB stick or in the elder days i could wire up a 
RS232 cable and use that via serial ports.


...
> To this day, I have yet ever to see an easy way to share a file between 
> 2 devices without full internet connectivity, except by say getting one 
> to run an ftp or ssh server and ftp or ssh'ing over the file between 
> local ip addrs (e.g. 192.168.x.y).  I'd love to know some well know 
> good, not-evil, open source app that runs on all the platforms that I 
> could tell people to install to send them a file without using the 
> internet.  I can't really see any technical reason such an thing 
> couldn't work, say over bluetooth or local IPs and maybe it does exist, 
> I've just never run across such a thing.  The key word here is EASY.  I 
> can't be hacking someone's phone for an hour just to transfer them a 
> file.

  if i'm taking that long to do something, i'll just find
an easier method.

  for me sending an e-mail with the file attached
might also do it.


  songbird