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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