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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: 2005-11-30 09:44:31
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.

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

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