Re: The Regents of the University of California. Allrights reserved.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyrre Nygård" <kyrreny@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "David J Brooks" <daeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: The Regents of the University of California. Allrights
reserved.


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.


I'm sure that will get prioritized right up top with the patch to change the
text color on the screen to green, to be more historically accurate
for a UNIX console.

Seriously, if someone were to make a large spelling error/typo patch
with a hundred or so typo corrections on it, there might be some
interest.

Ted

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