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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:22:00 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Kyrre Nyg?rd <kyrreny@broadpark.no>
Cc:        David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The Regents of the University of California. All rights	reserved.
Message-ID:  <20060825182200.GI78862@gothmog.pc>
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825194508.023efe40@broadpark.no>
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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On 2006-08-25 19:46, Kyrre Nyg?rd <kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I just hope somebody with the know-how can submit a patch.

A patch?  There's nothing wrong, so why "fix" it :-)




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