Sasha Zucker wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 10:31  AM, Chris Devers wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Sasha Zucker wrote:
> >
> >> I suspect that this error is the result of a system configuration issue.
> > It's LWP's head, which gets header [meta-] info from a given URL, and
> > ...
> > Thus, hard-wiring /usr/bin/head won't help, because it will be a different
> > command for users that accidentally broke it with LWP.
> > ...
> 
> oy vey... I think I will just echo the copyright information into the file
> rather than relying on the head command...

Many packages use the head command. This is a FAQ. In fact, why did this
discussion jump from fink-beginners to fink-devel? You might not have
seen my answer on fink-beginners:

Martin Costabel wrote:
> 
> Eric Dufour wrote:
> []
> > head -n 4 /sw/src/root-sgml-entities-
> > iso8879-1986-2/sw/share/sgml/entities/iso8879/iso-amsa.gml >
> > /sw/src/root-sgml-entities-
> > iso8879-1986-2/sw/share/doc/sgml-entities-iso8879/COPYRIGHT
> > Unknown option: n
> > Usage: head [-options] <url>...
> []
> 
> Fink FAQ section 4.3: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#head
> The head binary that you replaced by HEAD from perl libwww can be found at
> http://homepage.mac.com/costabel/head

-- 
martin

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