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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:07:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
To: "McEvoy, Peter" <peter DOT mcevoy AT iona DOT com>
cc: libwww AT perl DOT org, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Cygwin: name of an lwp-request script (HEAD) clashes with
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I don't.  However, some other perl packages that I used were dependent on
LWP, and the scripts got installed along with it.  For some reason I
wasn't asked whether those should be created.
	Igor

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, McEvoy, Peter wrote:

> Can you not use the lwp-request wrapper script?
>
> Pete
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> > Sent: 27 September 2002 23:32
> > To: libwww AT perl DOT org
> > Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Cygwin: name of an lwp-request script (HEAD) clashes with
> > /bin/head
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When installing LWP through CPAN, the installation creates
> > the GET, HEAD
> > and POST scripts in /usr/bin.  On Cygwin, the name HEAD
> > clashes with an
> > existing program, /bin/head.exe (Cygwin assumes a ".exe"
> > extension if it
> > cannot find a program, so /bin/head normally invokes /bin/head.exe).
> > Windows mostly disallows files with the same name in different cases,
> > unlike Unix, which has no trouble distinguishing between HEAD
> > and head.
> > So, to accommodate the users of Cygwin and others using
> > case-insensitive
> > filesystems, can the scripts GET, HEAD, and POST be renamed to GET.pl,
> > HEAD.pl, and POST.pl?  Would this break a lot of existing
> > functionality?
> > Thank you.
> > 	Igor Pechtchanski
> > P.S. I've cc'd the cygwin mailing list, as this is relevant to Cygwin.

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