Just my guess: many download managers download the file to some temporary folder and move it to it's final location only after successfull completion of the download. presumably they think partially downloaded files should be avoided. I suspece this is the case here.
Meir On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Shimon Panfil wrote: > Hi folks, > Some time ago I tried to download Mdk9.2 from links provided by > Distrowatch and observed that though Mozilla download manager shows that > right iso is being downloaded in the directory choosen, actual file with > strange name end exe extensionis downloaded in /tmp. I've stopped it > and another day tried another machine with different ISP with the same > result. Similar name.exe in /tmp. > What does it mean? > Shimon > -- > Shimon Panfil (http://192.115.21.142/panfil) > "Dragons are REAL unless declared INTEGER" > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
