Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 09:19:56 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ian Viemeister <vmeister AT ios DOT com>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: V2 ld crashing
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On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Ian Viemeister wrote:

> At 07:23 PM 2/23/96 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >Try renaming the file and modifying lib/specs to match.
> 
> Ok, this probably should be in the FAQ - when using Win95, 
> (which treats *.lnk as shortcuts), ld has the possiblity 
> of failing when trying to access lib/djgpp.lnk Changing the 
> name of djgpp.lnk to djgpp.ld and changing the reference to 
> djgpp.lnk in lib/specs to djgpp.ld solves this problem.

Please elaborate.  What are those ``shortcuts'' and how does this special 
treatment they get from Win95 interfere with DJGPP linker?