From: jpl.jpl@gmail.com (John P. Linderman)
Subject: [TUHS] UUCP "bag" files
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 20:24:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC0cEp93k_RrhPQD598W-nZQSA3c8Fe81Qu1CCF=zmvjA7yuCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EF997042-58AC-4212-A5EE-947F87C7EB08@orthanc.ca>
So calling them "uucp bag files" is akin to calling something an "ed editor
file" because the ed editor was able to update them?
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
>
> > On May 10, 2018, at 7:10 AM, John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I asked Dave Nowitz, one of the authors of HoneyDanBer UUCP (the others
> being Peter Honeyman and Brian Redman) if he knew what bag files were. He
> said
> >
> > Never heard of bag files.
>
> We always referred to them as "rnews batches," since that's what they were.
>
>
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-10 3:49 Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 3:51 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-10 4:53 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 5:03 ` Bakul Shah
2018-05-10 15:46 ` Mary Ann Horton
2018-05-10 16:08 ` Chet Ramey
2018-05-10 14:25 ` Chet Ramey
2018-05-10 15:28 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 16:03 ` Dan Cross
2018-05-10 16:24 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-10 14:10 ` John P. Linderman
2018-05-10 23:38 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-11 0:24 ` John P. Linderman [this message]
2018-05-11 3:51 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11 3:42 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11 3:58 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-11 4:09 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-11 4:18 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-12 4:39 ` Grant Taylor
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