head vs. head

2003-07-11 Thread Walt Pawley
I sure wish I'd managed to keep all the flotsam generated by cpan much earlier today - unfortunately, it's vanished if swirling puff of electrons. But this is probably old had to real Perl'ers. Still, I thought someone might want to know about it... Much later in the day, I discovered that a head

Re: head vs. head

2003-07-11 Thread David Hand
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:40:15PM -0700, Walt Pawley wrote: Perhaps even better would be not to use the word head as the name of a command in the first place - especially one that overwrites a command provided by MacOSX in the first place? I don't really know what the LWP head command did

Re: head vs. head

2003-07-11 Thread David R. Morrison
The head vs. HEAD problem is a well-known problem with using CPAN on Mac OS X. There was some discussion on this list last month because some people believed that the problem had been fixed. Sadly, your experience proves otherwise. Indeed, one can blame this problem on the unique

Re: head vs. head

2003-07-11 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 06:38 -0400 7/11/03, David R. Morrison wrote: The head vs. HEAD problem is a well-known problem with using CPAN on Mac OS X. There was some discussion on this list last month because some people believed that the problem had been fixed. Sadly, your experience proves otherwise. I actually also

Re: head vs. head

2003-07-11 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 02:40 AM, Walt Pawley wrote: I vaguely recall having been asked a question about whether something named head should have something or other done with it but the details escape me (as most things seem to be prone to do these days). As a general rule, module Makefiles

Re: head vs. head

2003-07-11 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 09:20 -0400 7/11/03, Sherm Pendley wrote: The lwp-request program will use the name it is invoked with to determine what HTTP method to use. I can set up alias for the most common HTTP methods. These alias are also installed in /usr/local/bin. Do you want to install the GET alias? [y] n Do

Re: head vs. head

2003-07-11 Thread Ken Williams
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 01:40 AM, Walt Pawley wrote: Much later in the day, I discovered that a head command typed into Terminal no longer gave me the first few lines of a file. Instead it seemed to provide numerous error messages and webbish looking stuff after some considerable delay. Hi

Patch for LWP Makefile.PL

2003-07-11 Thread Ken Williams
Hi, There's still a flaw with the conflict-detection in LWP's Makefile.PL that prevents /usr/bin/head from being overwritten by HEAD on Mac OS X. The problem is that MakeMaker uses $Config{installscript} as the installation location for EXE_FILES items, not $Config{sitebin} as was assumed in

Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-11 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chip Howland) wrote: At 1:10 AM +0900 7/11/03, Robin wrote: But if I have to have a double clickable perl script I prefer using the '.command' technique because I really believe Apple should just go ahead and use Perl as the scripting

Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-11 Thread Chip Howland
At 10:29 AM -0700 7/11/03, Chris Nandor wrote: and here's a Perl tutorial: [snip way too many lines of tutorial, apparently intended to make perl look a lot harder than it is] Here is what, perhaps, you meant: Open BBEdit Type print Hello, world. Run the script Yes, that's one way to run a

Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-11 Thread David Cantrell
On Friday, July 11, 2003 14:14 -0500 Chip Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you might be a special case. Not everyone has written Mac::Glue or maintained MacPerl. If you are claiming that you can do everything with Perl and Mac::Glue that you can with Applescript, then I won't dispute

Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-11 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chip Howland) wrote: At 10:29 AM -0700 7/11/03, Chris Nandor wrote: and here's a Perl tutorial: [snip way too many lines of tutorial, apparently intended to make perl look a lot harder than it is] Here is what, perhaps, you meant:

Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-11 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Cantrell) wrote: It matters not that he wrote Mac::Glue. He's published it, so I can use it too. And I have just as much difficulty with using Mac::Glue as I do with using Applescript. That difficulty is solely because Applescript

Re: DropScript confusion about cwd

2003-07-11 Thread Jeff Lowrey
At 10:29 AM -0700 7/11/03, Chris Nandor wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chip Howland) wrote: At 1:10 AM +0900 7/11/03, Robin wrote: But if I have to have a double clickable perl script I prefer using the '.command' technique because I really believe Apple should just

Re: head vs. head

2003-07-11 Thread Peter N Lewis
At 9:55 AM -0400 11/7/03, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: Surely the install script can be made smart enough to make [n] the default on Mac OS X? Even if the test is done in very general terms - i.e. if it were written to look for a

Re: head vs. head

2003-07-11 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 08:48 PM, Peter N Lewis wrote: so perhaps the test should be The test as written is fine - if there is a 'HEAD' file, it looks in it for the string 'lwp-request'. If it finds such a string, it defaults to 'y', as the file is probably a symlink that was installed by