In article <38AC2C57.ED218C79@its.bldrdoc.gov>, Tim Riley <tri### [at] itsbldrdocgov>
wrote:
>Here's a problem that I'm certain only I have encountered:
>After downloading the file (named setup.exe), I renamed it for better
>identification when I store it on my archive disk. When I tried running the
>file, it generated the error message "Unable to find attachment" and then
>quit. I went back to the web page and couldn't find any reference to a
>necessary attachment. I thought about it for a while, the renamed it back
>to setup.exe, ran it, and it installed fine. Apparently the program looks
>for itself specifically by its original name. I've never seen a program do
>this before. It wasn't a problem, just a surprise.

Exactly the same senario here. It's weird! There must be some call to 
decompression library that has 'setup.exe' hard-coded.

Dave.
mic### [at] sympaticoca

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