Am Samstag, den 01.11.2008, 10:09 +0100 schrieb Tomas Hajny: > On 31 Oct 08, at 17:49, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > Hi, > > > is there any function or set of functions for handling symbolic links > > inside the file system at an os independant level in fpcs libraries? > > > > Unix-like systems have soft symlinks (Linux, FreeBSD), Windows has .lnk > > files upt to XP and AFAIR Windows Vista has some other stuff I don't > > know about yet. > . > . > > .lnk files under Windows don't really work as symlinks and thus > wouldn't be supported at the RTL level (they aren't directly treated > like that by the Windows API level AFAIK, they're only handled by the > Windows GUI).
I expected behaviour like that, but I need to retrieve some information on the target file of the .lnk. I'm sure some shell- or winapi-funktion will help me there. > NTFS links (available since Win2k IIRC) are another > story, those are much closer to the Unix symbolic link concept. I see, this is the new part. So I have to go searching Bills KB for that stuff. Thank you, Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
