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From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:42:22 +0400 (MSD)
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X-Comment-To: Hans Ecke

Hi!

13-οΛΤ-97 12:08 ecke AT tea DOT geophysik DOT tu-freiberg DOT de (Hans Ecke) wrote to -= ArkanoiD =- <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>:

 > > ...DJGPP and softlinks
 > > Which softlinks?
 > They have a rather interesting executable-format. There are so-called
 > stubs with data-structures inside which include i.e. stacksize and also
 > the name of the file to execute. Putting an empty string inside executes
 > the executable, putting a valid filename executes this file. Now its easy
 > to create a stub which points to an executable and call this a link.

     This seems like Win95's .lnk. But how pgm be founded, if I point only
filename without path? Through standard command.com search algorithm
(current directory, next by path)?