10 May
2018
10 May
'18
6:03 p.m.
On Thu, May 10, 2018, 11:28 AM Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
On 05/10/2018 08:25 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
Totally hazarding a guess, but I'd imagine the etymology comes from a news
bag, as in the thing slung over the should and hauled around by the
neighborhood kid who delivers newspapers in the morning (that holds the
to-be-delivered news).
- Dan C.
Yes. Bag files are a file format used to transfer
news via uucp,
popularized by dnews. I think they originated with satellite news
systems.
This seems to be exactly the topic that I'm asking about.
Unfortunately it doesn't hint at why the files are called "bag" files.