From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey) Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 12:08:02 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UUCP "bag" files In-Reply-To: References: <04c44cba-fefe-b5c6-d683-618ed3ddb0cb@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <9D7839FC-A3EB-4211-887D-BCE67229E1D6@orthanc.ca> <042d9aff-82df-d267-e585-3dfe57b06252@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20180510050341.64DDC156E510@mail.bitblocks.com> Message-ID: On 5/10/18 11:46 AM, Mary Ann Horton wrote: > Stargate did not use anything called "bags".  I just checked the source > code to confirm. > > It also didn't use D news.  Stargate required B news. There are many other satellite internet providers that have appeared since stargate. For instance: http://www.infostar.de/knowhow/satfeed.txt The dnews documentation references them: "DNEWS can read UUCP bag files in standard rnews format, these are often used by satellite systems, the satellite receiver software may write 'uucp' files to a directory on your system, dnews can then automatically scan and read in items that appear in this directory." -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/