From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 25 17:21:48 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 9B92B16A4DF for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:21:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58FE43D45 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:21:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.7/8.13.7/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k7PHLOsN007130 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:21:31 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k7PHLXSf079702; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:21:34 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id k7PHLW3A079701; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:21:32 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:21:32 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David J Brooks Message-ID: <20060825172132.GD78862@gothmog.pc> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825111756.02360a00@broadpark.no> <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.855, required 5, autolearn=not spam, AWL -0.26, BAYES_00 -2.60, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 17:21:48 -0000 On 2006-08-25 05:50, David J Brooks wrote: >On Friday 25 August 2006 04:19, Kyrre Nyg?rd 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 > 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. Which is very unfortunate, since none of the, so called, word "processors" can get it right(TM). Only TeX is a typesetting program that I have found smart enough to deal with properly spacing sentences, without the need for this doubled space character :-( > 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. A lot of people still use non-proportional fonts; especially when reading and/or writing program sources ;-) You really hit the mark with typewriter habits vs. word processors though :)