Purchased audio files are sent over the Web to the cellphone for downloading.
Judicial Watch contends otherwise and is seeking $90 million on behalf of people whose files were sent to the White House.
Mr. Schantz said that the books were often scanned in the United States and that the text files were sent over the Internet to offshore offices.
When Chang died, all of her files were sent to Mr. Soong's parents according to her wishes, even though she had not seen them for three decades.
But the stamp shows the time the files were sent to insurers, and the government sends all the files at the same time once a day, so multiple transactions are shown as having occurred at precisely the same moment.
Is this the best format for files being sent to other people on different computer systems? A. Plain text files, sometimes called ASCII text files, can be opened by a wide variety of programs on many types of computer operating systems.
Typically, several test files are sent to the S.E.C. to make sure everything is correct before the real filing is transmitted, said Rob Mossefin, a vice president of production at FilePoint, a filing agent based in Raleigh, N.C.
H. A. Rey died in 1977, Margret in 1996, and their papers and files were sent to the de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi, where, in 1999, a visiting editor found it in the files.
The files are sent to India to be machine embroidered, but thanks to Ms. Housley's method, the finished goods are quirky, with perfectly imperfect stitching that makes each piece look hand-made.
Once deemed satisfactory, the computer files were sent to a 3-dimensional printing company for the production of the prototypes.
