peter green wrote:

>> As I just wrote in another post, it seems that Windows shortcuts actually
>> work pretty transparently as symbolic links even for non-executable files.

> Its only skin deep, yes the windows common dialogs will follow them as
> will the windows shell, but those are about the only things that do. 

Plus the IShellLink API, see http://tinyurl.com/yhflfb

As long as you write your own application and want it to use links
transparently, there's probably no reason why it should not be able to.
Probably less work than roll your own scheme. Plus it works (through the
shell) with most other applications.

Gerhard

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