That did it, Martin. Thanks so much!!!!

I had no '/usr/bin/head'. I downloaded 'head' from your website and
moved it into '/usr/bin'. After that 'fink selfupdate-cvs' produced
the long desired result

   The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other
   packages using commands like 'fink update-all'.

Regards,

Vic

At 7:58 PM +0100 2/5/03, Martin Costabel wrote:
On mercredi, f�v 5, 2003, at 18:38 Europe/Paris, Vic Norton wrote:

   ? gcc -E - | grep 'curses.h' | head -1 | \
   ? sed -e 's/^[^"]*"//; s/".*$//'
   Unknown option: 1
   Usage: head [-options] <url>...
       -m <method>   use method for the request (default is 'HEAD')
       ...
       -x            Extra debugging output

Now finally we are getting somewhere! This is a FAQ. Unfortunately,
the fink web server is down ATM, so I cannot give you the URL, but
it is there.

Basically, the installation of the perl libwww clobbered your
/usr/bin/head by a script named HEAD. You have to reinstall the
original head binary. If you don't find it on your OSX CD, I have a
copy at
http://www.maths.univ-rennes1.fr/~costabel/head

--
Martin



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