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From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] UUCP "bag" files
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 16:38:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EF997042-58AC-4212-A5EE-947F87C7EB08@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp8QS8K56YL3o2f9LLXWdSws0J_UMUD38bUZ-3i=JZF5YQ@mail.gmail.com>


> 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.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-10 23:38 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2018-05-11  0:24       ` John P. Linderman
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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