Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:46:58 +0200 From: Kyrre =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nyg=E5rd?= <kyrreny@broadpark.no> To: 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: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825194508.023efe40@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060825111756.02360a00@broadpark.no> <200608250550.05345.daeg@houston.rr.com>
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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. > >David >-- >Sure the Almighty created the world in only six days, >but He didn't have an established user-base. Thanks for the information Mr. Brooks, and I see you messed up the subject line :) I just hope somebody with the know-how can submit a patch. All the best, Kyrre
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