Lisp Knowledgebase
Title: Windows Shortcuts and Common Lisp file handling
ID: 16004
| Product: LispWorks for Windows Version: All OS: All Windows platforms | |
| Description: From the Windows desktop, shortcuts appear to be like UNIX symbolic links, allowing files to be accessed via multiple names. This raises the question: "Should shortcuts be followed by the Common Lisp file handling functions such as OPEN and TRUENAME." The decision we made was not to allow this because shortcuts are part of the Shell API, not the file system API (the Shell implements the NT Desktop, Task bar, file prompters etc). In effect they are little executables that contain instructions on how to launch a program and it just happens that some of them launch or modify a directory browser. | |
| See Also: Workaround: Patch: | |
| Hardware:N/A | |
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| Reported:3061, 4833, 5029, 5072, 6673 | |