Ah ha.  It's nice to know I'm not alone.

QFileDialog::getSaveFileName()  and getOpenFileName()
have a default param 
     resolveSymlinks = true
which is not specified in dvbcut - so we we get the observed behaviour.

!


On Tuesday 02 January 2007 21:54, Michael Riepe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> anopheles wrote:
> > A small but long-standing annoyance ...
> >
> > If I have a directory containing a link to an mpg file, and I try to open
> > it with dvbcut, then the default index file location is always at the
> > target directory of the link, instead of in the starting directory.
>
> Yep, I also noticed that.
>
> > If the source mpg is on /cdrom, then you can see that there is no point
> > trying to create an index file there!
> >
> > Is this an unfortunate side-effect of "cross-platform support" in QT, or
> > a strangeness in dvbcut code?
>
> I guess it's QT's fault. Dvbcut itself doesn't care at all if the name
> is a regular file or a link.


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