Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
Yeah, just like links. Instead of putting symlinks in the file system API, they just made up a file format and .lnk extension that Explorer treats specially. Hooray.
I was surprised to find Cygwin actually understands .lnk links natively as symlinks. Tiny bit of unix to dull the Windows pain. Unfortunately nothing else does. Even using them in an Save (and friends) dialog doesn't quite work right -- it follows them on a double-click, but now your file is named after the link instead of the (often useful) default. Because, after all, Explorer using its own extensions consistently would be far too useful.
