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From: jpl.jpl@gmail.com (John P. Linderman)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 20:24:18 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] UUCP "bag" files
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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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