A windows shortcut is a kind of special thing. The file system, not the application, interprets it (the application can ask, in another way, to examine it, but in the general course of things it doesn't).
I don't know if a windows shortcut hosted on a non-windows file system works the same way. It might ... or it might not. I never thought about it before. I just did some experiments on my Buffalo Linkstation. There are actually several types of windows shortcuts, at least judging by their behaviours. There is a shortcut to another place in the same filesystem. There is a shortcut to another filesystem on the same machine. There is a shortcut to a UNC address. Initial investigation indicates there might even be 2 different types of these. There is a shortcut to an internet address (doesn't seem very relevant here). Clearly the last few can't in any reasonable way be interpreted by the low level file system driver, since they are outside it's pervue. I don't know who interprets them. -- Michaelwagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20393 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
