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Michel bertrand
Feb 9, 2010, 6:26:06 PM2/9/10
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has anyone written a function to get the full filename target of a Windows lnk shortcut?
Walter Roberson
Feb 9, 2010, 6:35:12 PM2/9/10
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Michel bertrand wrote:
> has anyone written a function to get the full filename target of a
> Windows lnk shortcut?
> has anyone written a function to get the full filename target of a
> Windows lnk shortcut?
Could be fairly tricky. Windows lnk shortcuts are examples of a more general
facility to interject arbitrary code into the filesystem that gets executed
when it gets referenced as a file path. For example it could be a device
driver to a encrypted ram disk, or it could be a mount point for a completely
different kind of (non-Windows) filesystem... there isn't necessarily any
meaningful "full filename target" as distinct from the path that includes the
shortcut.
Because the lnk are executables you cannot simply read them using a system
call, the way you might with a unix soft link: you actually have to ask the
desktop to resolve the path for you.
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