I don't remember the genesis of the name, the main driver was making
sure people could tell that they were downloading Counter-Strike: Source
and not CS 1.6. As for the CLI thing, don't mention that to windows
folk... :)

- Alfred

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"Counter-Strike Source" vs hl2mp naming conventions

> I second this.  I was just too lazy to complain about it.
>
> Andrew Forsberg wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 21:04 -0800, Alfred Reynolds wrote:
> >
> >
> > > We have released HL2MP and an update to Counter-Strike: Source.
> > >
> > > To get hl2mp run hldsupdatetool with "hl2mp" as the game parameter
> > > (i.e "hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game hl2mp" ). The total
> > > download size is around 300MB.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hi Alfred
> >
> > One thing that's been bugging me -- is there a rationale behind the
> > name "Counter-Strike Source' rather than plain old css, or
> > hl2cstrike,
> > when it comes to updates, installs, etc? I can type as fast as the
> > next
> > bastard, but I'm also as lazy as said next bastard when it comes to
> > CLI
> > statements. :)
> >
> > Not a biggie, just curious in case there was some commercial / code
> > /
> > psychological reason for the big-arsed name.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
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