Re: [OT] Microsoft invents symbolic links

From: Davide Libenzi (davidel@maticad.it)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 05:22:47 EST


Friday, March 03, 2000 11:00 AM
Romano Giannetti <romano@dea.icai.upco.es> 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.

Of course.
The CR-LF line termination is the real great invention of M$ ;)

Davide.

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