Re: /usr/bin/head is an HTTP 'HEAD' request??

[Peter Prymmer]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Andrew M. Langmead wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:18:30AM -0600, Bob Dalgleish wrote:
> > Hence, we should (by "we", I mean "not me", but someone else) ask Gisle Aas
> > to change the standard installation point to refer to /usr/local/bin, and
> > somehow we, by which I mean the Mac OS X Perl community, will work out how
> > to access 'HEAD' and not 'head'.
> 
> The LWP library probably uses Perl's $installprefix (as specified
> during Configure time.) as the directory to install into. If perl is
> /usr/bin/perl, then HEAD will be /usr/bin/HEAD. If perl is
> /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/bin/perl, then HEAD will be
> /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/bin/HEAD.
> 
> Maybe Gisle should just check if there is already a program called
> "HEAD" before he overwrites it.

Maybe the LWP program could be renamed to LWPHEAD or somesuch(?)

Peter Prymmer