Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

[Max Bowsher]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > The LWP module isn't part of the Cygwin perl distribution.  If you
> > install LWP you are asked if you want to install these shortcuts
> > This was included in the LWP setup because of the problems with Cygwin
> > and other case insensitive platforms.
>
> Hmm, I don't believe I was asked anything - everything was installed
> automatically...  I can re-check this.

I installed LWP via the CPAN shell yesterday - no questions were asked, the make
install errored out, with head and HEAD being the problem. Another option would
be to try and convince LWP to make them HEAD.pl, GET.pl, POST.pl instead.

Max.


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