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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 04:19:28PM -0700, Robert Spier wrote: > > This whole thread makes little sense to me. > > A windows shortcut file is _not_ the equivalent of a UNIX symlink. > > It's meant so that Explorer can store meta-data about file location, > icons and other things. > > If you ask MS Word to access c:\Some.lnk\file.doc, I'm 99% sure it > will fail. Perl should do the same. The point is that windows doesn't have symlinks - apparently without the resource kit, and even then, only directory hard links. For purposes of portablity across platforms it *should* have symlinks. And hence, I think perl should emulate them as it does fork(). Anyways, you don't access a word document via C:\Some.lnk\file.doc, you access it by: a) opening up word, hitting the 'open menu' b) clicking on the icons following file.doc down to its source. c) clicking on the file.doc menu. How is this any different from accessing it via 'C:\some.lnk\file.doc' (except by making it a bigger pain for the user)? EdThread Previous | Thread Next