Re: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links

From: Romano Giannetti (romano@dea.icai.upco.es)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 05:00:57 EST


On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 06:52:54PM +0100, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> FILE * pFile = fopen("foo.lnk", "r");
>
> You get the raw foo.lnk file.

Worst. You get a mangled (with 0x0d 0x0a -> 0x0a conversion) version of
the link raw data. I was just been biten by that binary conversion
stupidity (first time doing a fseek() on win, you know.) They owe me
ten hours hunting inexistent bug.

                                  Romano

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