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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 29, 2005, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511300055360.22317@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtir846o.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.

Hey, you 0wn3d me there.