On Wed, 15 May 2002 12:49:41 UTC, Michael Kaply 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined:

> Stan Goodman wrote:
> > 
> > Am I the only one for whom RC2 appends ".exe" to files it downloads? I
> > haven't seen other reports like this, although there was something
> > recently about RC1 appending ".txt", if I remember correctly.
> > 
> > What is the fix, if any?
> 
> I wish there was a fix.
> 
> You can follow the arguments/discussion in:
> 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120327

That must mean that you don't have a patch right now. You cannot 
possibly mean that we are stuck with this for longer than it takes to 
get out the next release.

When I see something like this, it reminds me of Borland's "Sidekick" 
v1.57. That rudimentary DOS PIM, the main function of which was 
telephone dialling, didn't know how to dial a telephone line. 

I'm relieved to see that most of the discussion is from people who 
object as I do to the notion that Mozilla should ignore existing 
extensions under ANY circumstance, and replace them with its own. (Or,
what is even more idiotic, to append an extension to an existing 
extension, e.g. file.zip.exe). The bad news, however, is that it is 
Mozilla-team people who are defending this foolishness, which is very 
depressing; it bodes ill.

One of the recurring themes in OS/2 newsgroups is that we can do 
things the way we want, without the diktat of Mr. Gates. Is the 
Mozilla team telling us now that dictatorial software is now the Wave 
Of The Future?

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "sgoodman".

The Terrorist Credo: You can make friends by exploding bombs in public
places, and the more people you kill, the better they will like you.

200 years of European fecklessness in the face of Arab terror: Tripoli
Pirates (1814); OPEC Oil (1973); Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat 
(1990 et seq.) -- but actually financing it is a 21st-century European
wrinkle.

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