On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:21:54 -0500, Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> ...
> > The real problem of Windows .lnk files (within Windows use) is that
> > even though you can make link to a directory, you can not really use
> > it. Unlike UNIX, you can not use .lnk files as middle part of path,
> > it may only be used as the terminating part (basename) of a path.
>
> Why not? Or, probably, "where not"?
>
> In the Window UI, you can have links (shortcuts) to directories.
> Conceptually, these are in the middle part of a path (the virtual
> path you tranverse step by step in the UI).
>
> Are links not usable in the middle of pathnames given to the command-line
> interpreter? Or are links not usuable in pathnames given to Windows OS
> calls for file operations.
I guess in both. I checked by giving a path to 1: the built in "run"
(BTW with its "browse" you can't even traverse the link). 2: as file
to open to `notepad' and other native M$ windows utilities.
BOTH FAILED !
Ehud.
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