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[OT] Activision (Re: use binmode(STDOUT) in git-status)

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Nov 29, 2005, 22:44 UTC
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
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> Johannes Schindelin, Mon, Nov 28, 2005 17:56:58 +0100:
>> > if you're running Cygwin, wouldn't Cygwin's Perl make a lot more sense?
>> 
>> I thought so, too, but I guess there's a reason that Activision's perl was 
>> used.
>
> the reason were incompatible scripts (notably, the ones expecting crlf).

I wonder why people keep saying Activision ;-). Taken with my use of frotz and nitfol in the examples [*1*], somebody might confuse us with a group of old Infocom [*2*] fans.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitfol [2] http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/infocom/

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  1. Alex RiesenNov 28, 2005
  2. H. Peter AnvinNov 28, 2005
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinNov 28, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2005
  6. Alex RiesenNov 29, 2005
  7. [OT] Activision (Re: use binmode(STDOUT) in git-status)Junio C Hamano, Nov 29, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinNov 29, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2005
  10. Tim O'CallaghanNov 29, 2005
  11. Johannes SchindelinNov 29, 2005

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