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From: Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk (Paul Shirley)
Subject: Re: v18 vs v17 compile times....
25 May 1997 14:32:47 -0700 :
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In message <199705231513 DOT LAA06332 AT postman DOT opengroup DOT org>, Michael
Condict <condict AT opengroup DOT org> writes
>       1) Readdir, when returning the names of files in a directory,
>          should delete the suffix ".lnk" or ".pif", if present.
>
>Comments?

Fairly trivial... .lnk is a common type for linker script files in the
DOS/Windoze world. With Win95 this is already annoying in explorer, but
if they get filtered out by renaming this way it will cause some of us
problems. Perhaps you should also check the system flag before stripping
the suffix.

-- 
Paul Shirley
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