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From:
Edward Peschko
Date:
April 28, 2003 15:27
Subject:
Re: windows, shortcuts and 'use lib'
Message ID:
20030428095638.B25780@mdssirds.comp.pge.com
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:39:06PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> Benjamin Goldberg wrote:
> > A better patch (imho) would be to make the "-l" operator return true for
> > filenames which end in ".lnk", and hack "readlink" on windows to grock
> > the format of shortcut files.  Then, one could write:
> > 
> >    use lib readlink('shortcut.lnk');
> > 
> > Which would thus require no alteration of lib.pm.
> 
> CORE::readlink() is overridable. You could do this in a module
> (Win32::Readlink ?)

How about 'use lib'? Could 'use lib' be made overridable based on platform?

Ed
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