164077 - when i downloaded .msi files (particularly active PERL and Apache) an extra .exe ending was appended causing them not to run unless i renamed them.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 120327

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Eric Feeny]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

when i downloaded .msi files (particularly active PERL and Apache) an extra .exe
ending was appended causing them not to run unless i renamed them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download an msi installer file (.msi)
2.save it as the default name, which is not the name given in the link.
3.

Actual Results:  
wrong file name

Expected Results:  
correct file name

Comment 1

[WD]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120327 ***

Comment 2

[Eric Feeny]

then maybe we should write a better search for previous bugs
because i searched for .exe add
and .exe append and neither brought up the previous bug.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Duplicates.

mail search string for bugspam: SolarFlaresAreTheCause