On Friday 25 August 2006 04:19, Kyrre Nygård wrote: > Hello! > > I am just wondering why it says: > > "The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved." > > when I log in locally, but: > > "The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved." > > when I log in via SSH? The difference for you with untrained eyes is the > double spacing after the dot instead of the standard single spacing. > > I was just curious if there's a reason to this or not.
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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"