From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 25 10:50:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632AF16A4DE for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:50:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC35043D45 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:50:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from cpe-24-167-74-69.houston.res.rr.com (cpe-24-167-74-69.houston.res.rr.com [24.167.74.69]) by ms-smtp-04.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7PAo6KL008248 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:50:06 -0500 (CDT) From: David J Brooks Organization: KC5WNK To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:50:04 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825111756.02360a00@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825111756.02360a00@broadpark.no> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(=?utf-8?q?gxJxxc=0A=09R=09nSNPNr*/=5E=7EStawWU9KDJ-CT0k=24f=23?=@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:50:08 -0000 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.