Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:11:09 -0700 (MST) | From | Derrik Pates <> | Subject | RE: Kernel TODO list (vfat : shortcuts vs. symbolic links) |
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On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Kenneth Albanowski wrote:
> This, unfortunately, isn't very likely as Windows 95 "shortcuts" are > actually .PIF files. You can view them, more-or-less, as a short batch > file that runs the original when you run it. Even under Windows 95, they > don't work to well, and while it _might_, barely, be possible to treat > shortcuts as symbolic links, going the other way around probably can't > work at all.
The .LNK files are the ones he's referring to. The PIFs are for DOS proggys only.
Derrik Pates dpates@cavern.nmsu.edu -- Win95 isn't the problem - OS/2 and DOS are. Win95 is the answer. -- also -- Linux is the answer to the same problem. -- but -- Linux is free.
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