From: rale00@earthlink.net (rale) Subject: Re: ls -p very slow 5 Nov 1997 18:43:10 -0800 Message-ID: <3460EE7E.3DF3DCC9.cygnus.gnu-win32@earthlink.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alex Cc: cloder@acm.org, Derek Young , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Alex wrote: > > Shortcuts are those bloody .lnk files, but not just available to the GUI > proggies, but to all Win32 programs, afaik they don't have INI style > syntax. They do however have various API functions that would probably > provide a [small] speedup. I'm thinking that the stat functions (or > whatever ls is using) would only check .lnk files for shortcuts, and if it > _is_ a shortcut, then the .lnk is truncated within gnu-win32, and if it's > not a shortcut then, it's treated as a regular file (with the .lnk > extension). > > - alex > I thought those kinds of links were only usable for files tho? At least from windows explorer you cant create links to directories... Or maybe im wrong? Paul - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".