David E. Ross wrote:
I prefer to do my updates locally after downloading the installer files. I maintain my own PC and also my wife's. Thus, I want to download once and install twice.For an incremental update of a Mozilla-based applications, I download the .partial.mar file. Then I use a DOS script to do the install. Today is the first time I tried this with my new Windows 7 PC using seamonkey-2.22-2.22.1.partial.mar. Oops! It happens that a .mar file in Windows 7 is a Microsoft Office Access Report Shortcut file, and a .partial file is an IE Partial Download file. Thus, the downloaded SeaMonkey update has an icon with a bent arrow in the lower-left corner to indicate it is a shortcut. Worse, the actual file name got changed to seamonkey-2.22-2.22.1.partial.mar.mar. Yes, the .mar extension now appears twice at the end of the file name! This doubled extension is not visible when viewing the file in a Windows Explorer window; only one .mar is seen. Also, the FTP log that I get when I download files does not show the doubled extension. I had to use a DOS window to see it. Apparently, Windows 7 added the extra .mar. This doubled extension, of course broke my script and the Mozilla updater.exe that it uses. Since updater.exe requires the .mar file to be named update.mar, I had to add the following to my DOS script: If EXIST update.mar.mar ren update.mar.mar update.mar Followup-To set to mozilla.support.seamonkey.
What are you using to download the update? I do not have that problem with Windows 7 Home Premium. I can download seamonkey-2.22-2.22.1.partial.mar using either the windows 7 command line ftp program or using SeaMonkey and it is downloaded and named correctly.
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