Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:50:04 -0500 From: David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Message-ID: <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825111756.02360a00@broadpark.no> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825111756.02360a00@broadpark.no>
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On Friday 25 August 2006 04:19, Kyrre Nyg=E5rd wrote: > Hello! > > I am just wondering why it says: > > "The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved." > > when I log in locally, but: > > "The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved." > > when I log in via SSH? The difference for you with untrained eyes is the > double spacing after the dot instead of the standard single spacing. > > I was just curious if there's a reason to this or not. Back in the Jurassic era, when typewriters still roamed the earth, it was a= =20 convention to leave a double-space following a period so that the reader=20 could more easily distinguish the end of a sentence. With the advent of wor= d=20 processors (and proportional fonts) this double-spacing convention lapsed. My guess is that the code for SSH was written by someone who learned to typ= e=20 on a typewriter, or was taught by someone who learned to type that way. David =2D-=20 Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base.
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