shell files in packaging/win32 better with extensions

["Andreas Köhler"]

Hi,

"Nathan Buchanan" <nbinont at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/25/07, Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andi,
> >
> > just today I got my new WinXP Laptop and I started to use the
> > gnucash-on-windows build again. So far everything runs fine - with one
> > exception: When initially downloading the content of packaging/win32,
> the
> > fact that some files don't have an extension really confuses Windows. I
> > ended
> > up with "defaults.htm" instead of "defaults", and "functions" the same.
> 
> Is this truly a windows problem? Firefox under linux does the same thing
> (when downloading from trac)...how are you downloading these files?

Maybe it is a Firefox phenomenon to mimick The Internet Explorer.
Personally, I hesitate to rename those files again, especially because
I do not want to promote them as please-run-me-shell-scripts.
Do you think this is a major issue?

-- andi5

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