I saw recent mention of LWP here. I'm using perl, the one that came with OS X and I'm using Fink. I missed something in think FAQ about perl and LWP. I've seen this discussed on the Fink list but I don't have a perfectly satisfactory solution yet.
LWP installs a prorgam called HEAD -- which would be fine if the Mac HFS+ file system and OS X truly made case distinctions. (It does make some case distinctions, but only enough to be annoying.) In any case when I tried it before, I installed LWP and wiped out a very important program called head - the standard unix program to give you the first (10 by default?) lines of a file. The best solutions suggested are either to save head and then after the install store HEAD someplace else and copy back head or reconfigure CPAN so it doesn't write binaries to /usr/bin to start with. The first seems doable, but would require altering every perl thingy (script - module -program) than might use HEAD. The second would require me to have a better understanding of CPAN, since I can't figure out how to change it. Is there a way to make perl install LWP (and everything else): 1. so that all the files are accessible 2. they won't wipe out anything already present 3. they will be able to distinguish the PERL scripts from binaries using some mechanism other than case. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
