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 References: <17565@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1991Jul27.205417.967@news.media.mit.edu> <1991Jul27.232943.2473@news.media.mit.edu> Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System) Organization: MIT Media Laboratory Lines: 15 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) .