From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: v18 vs v17 compile times....
26 May 1997 02:30:06 -0700
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Paul Shirley wrote:
> 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.
> 

And one more comment: the format of explorer's .lnk files is undocumented...

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Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.


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