>Many (if not most or all) applications do that. Try opening a "Shortcut"
>type file with eg. Notepad, Notepad++ or SourceEdit, and all will open the
>file that the shortcut is pointing to. Even the right-click menu has all
>the items that belong to the target file type, independently of the file
>extension of the shortcut itself.

Until you right click on a shortcut in the "my documents" and try sending 
the document by email - the shortcut gets sent instead ..... 

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