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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 16:41:21 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Real symlinks for DJGPP?
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Hello.

Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> Nice. Are the WINDOZE shortcuts equivalent to symlinks? If so perhaps
> that format should be used?

No, they are not at all equivalent. To the FAT filesystem they are just
another file. They contain the filename of the file they are "shortcuts"
to, but it's up to Explorer to interpret them and act appropriately (which
it does sometimes). IMHO they are an ugly hack. However, it may be
possible to make use of the shortcut files transparent with DJGPP's libc,
in order to simulate symlinks.

Anyhow, the Windows shortcut file format (.lnk file extension) can be
downloaded here: http://www.wotsit.org/

HTH, bye,

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