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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:44:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        aledm@routers.co.uk (Aled Morris)
Cc:        abial@webgiro.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, mpp@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@calldei.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Please review: rc file changes
Message-ID:  <199909011644.SAA08764@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990901164954.18052A-100000@dinah.alice.net.uk> from Aled Morris at "Sep 1, 1999  4:50:54 pm"

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As Aled Morris wrote ...
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> >> :>    I've never heard of that.  I've always found that two spaces
> >> :> after end-of-sentence punctuation makes things easier to read!
> >> :
> >> :I vote for two spaces after the period before the start of a new sentence.
> >> :Even in the digital age, I've always found that the two spaces make
> >
> >>     I guess they don't teach manual typewriting classes any more :-)
> >>     It *had* to be two spaces or you got seriously marked down!
> >
> >Doesn't apply here in Europe. I vote against putting in too much
> >stars&stripes dependent stuff... ;-)
> >
> >Andrzej Bialecki
> 
> It does apply in the UK - two spaces is pretty standard.  I guess this
> isn't an Americanism (for once!)

So, it is probably an Anglicism. It is definitely non-standard in the
Netherlands. My touch typing lessons dictated 1 space.

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