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7. Sharing Files

Wallace Wang

(1)San Diego, California, USA

Most of the time you’ll create and modify files for your own use. However, you may need to share files with other people. Sometimes you may want to let them see what you’ve created, but other times you may need to let them edit your file and send it back to you. Since sharing files is often necessary, you need to know how to share files easily.

In a perfect world, you should be able to share files as easily as you can share a newspaper or magazine. In reality, sharing files isn’t as simple as you might expect.

Remember, programs store data in a specific file format. That means a file created ...

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