Re: WHOIS Reminder Proofreading

From: Christopher X. Candreva (chris@westnet.com)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 12:29:16 EST


On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Jack Broughton wrote:

> most useful highschool courses I took when I got to university. I was
> ALWAYS taught that in our mono spaced courier font typewriters we always
> had two spaces after a full stop.

I don't know if this helps the discussion or not :-) but in the '70's my
father brought home an electric typewriter someone was throwing out. They
junked it, it turned out, because it was a proportional-spaced typewriter,
makeing it quite impossible to backspace and fix anything. And it didn't
always work well -- it wasn't an IBM.

BUT -- it had a split space-bar. One side would give a single space, the
other side two spaces.

-Chris

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