Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> >>>> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work
>> >>>>around the problem?
>> >>>
>> >>>Most likely.  I don't think wget cares about protecting Windows users
>> >>>from their own stupidity.  If you use wget, you should know what you're
>> >>>doing.
>> >>>
>> >>>How about you just give it a try?
>> >>
>> >> Er, I don't have this problem.  I wasn't the one reporting it.
>> > Downloading setup.exe with wget has another problem. The downloaded
>> > file is missing the +x bit, IIRC.
>> 
>> It's irrelevant for setup.exe.

> It's not.  Try to start any executable on a NTFS filesystem.  Remove
> the executable bits from all entries in the ACL.  Try again.

Sure that will cause issues, but read quote from the start.
If you download setup.exe using wget, it's unlikely you'll be unable to run
it.
You need to do some real tinkering first to prevent that.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 19.06.2012, <04:24>

Sorry for my terrible english...

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