From: minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: People with zero science.
Message-ID: <1991Jul28.002337.2995@news.media.mit.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 91 00:23:37 GMT
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I can't believe it happened again.  I was apologizing for missing the
point of Brian Holtz's message and cluttering up the net with a
foolish reply.  And then I let the *** unix send my message without a
terminating blank line.  I've trained myself to terminate properly
most of the time, but not when I've just switched mailers.  Does
anyone have a patch to "rn" that would automatically terminate
correctly?

I mean, it reminds me of the struggle in Project Mac in 1963 to get
the system to respond to characters instead of waiting for an EOL (end
of line).  I presume that UNIX uses more modern conventions, like
1969, say?

. (for good measure)
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