From: benny@crocodial.de (Benjamin Riefenstahl)
Subject: Re: Problem with symbolic links in b18
6 Feb 1998 09:48:10 -0800
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Well, since you mentioned the shortcuts .lnk and .pif files, what is the
> structure for the data in those files?  I'm working on a project and I
> need to know how the files are laid out.

AFAIK officially these are undocumented. In Win95/NT they can be
accessed via OLE objects exported by the Explorer shell.

There is a seemingly incomplete description of PIFs at
http://www.wotsit.demon.co.uk/binaries.htm .

Another one is on CompuServe (UC793.ASC in the DDJFORUM, section 0).
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