Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:54:48 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kyrre_Nyg=E5rd?= <kyrreny@broadpark.no>, "David J Brooks" <daeg@houston.rr.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The Regents of the University of California. Allrights reserved. Message-ID: <007301c6c8ed$49e92ba0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825111756.02360a00@broadpark.no><200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060825194508.023efe40@broadpark.no>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyrre Nygård" <kyrreny@broadpark.no> To: "David J Brooks" <daeg@houston.rr.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:46 AM Subject: Re: The Regents of the University of California. Allrights reserved. > At 12:50 25.08.2006, David J Brooks wrote: > > >Back in the Jurassic era, when typewriters still roamed the earth, it was a > >convention to leave a double-space following a period so that the reader > >could more easily distinguish the end of a sentence. With the advent of word > >processors (and proportional fonts) this double-spacing convention lapsed. > > > >My guess is that the code for SSH was written by someone who learned to type > >on a typewriter, or was taught by someone who learned to type that way. > > > >David > >-- > >Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days, > >but He didn't have an established user-base. > > Thanks for the information Mr. Brooks, and I see you messed up the > subject line :) > > I just hope somebody with the know-how can submit a patch. > I'm sure that will get prioritized right up top with the patch to change the text color on the screen to green, to be more historically accurate for a UNIX console. Seriously, if someone were to make a large spelling error/typo patch with a hundred or so typo corrections on it, there might be some interest. Ted
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