Can you not use the lwp-request wrapper script? Pete
> -----Original Message----- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 27 September 2002 23:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Cygwin: name of an lwp-request script (HEAD) clashes with > /bin/head > > > Hi, > > When installing LWP through CPAN, the installation creates > the GET, HEAD > and POST scripts in /usr/bin. On Cygwin, the name HEAD > clashes with an > existing program, /bin/head.exe (Cygwin assumes a ".exe" > extension if it > cannot find a program, so /bin/head normally invokes /bin/head.exe). > Windows mostly disallows files with the same name in different cases, > unlike Unix, which has no trouble distinguishing between HEAD > and head. > So, to accommodate the users of Cygwin and others using > case-insensitive > filesystems, can the scripts GET, HEAD, and POST be renamed to GET.pl, > HEAD.pl, and POST.pl? Would this break a lot of existing > functionality? > Thank you. > Igor Pechtchanski > P.S. I've cc'd the cygwin mailing list, as this is relevant to Cygwin. > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular > Science, Oct'02, p.51 > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
