Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0401100100310.1756@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: foo.ipk.gz
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:00:39 -0500 (EST)
foo.ipk.gz in order to use an infrared keyboard with the zaurus linux pda, i had to download an ipk driver file. i tried to install with ipkg and kept getting error messages. call the file foo.ipk. so i gzipped foo.ipk producing foo.ipk.gz. i then changed the name to foo.ipk. then i installed with ipkg without the error. ipkg was foo-led with the hidden .gz. ipkg didn't realize that the file in the first place didn't need zipping and unzipping. ipkg would bow out because it couldn't unzip. it couldn't unzip because foo.ipk in the first place wasn't zipped. after it was zipped, ipkg could then unzip. once unzipped ipkg could then continue the installation. there is a message here about the phenomenology of protocols. i prefer to look at it as a trick i learned to do. i learned to foo-l ipkg. i swelled with pride at my accomplishment. _