Thanks for the info, everyone. Looks like I have a bit of reading to do...
Brian.
David W Noon wrote:
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:43:52 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote about Re:
[fpc-pascal] programmatically creating desktop icons under Linux:
On 7 February 2010 23:42, Graeme Geldenhuys
wrote
In our previous episode, David W Noon said:
> > >
> > > Creating symbolic links (ls -s ) should suffice.
> >
> > Typo, it should read: ln -s
>
> Actually, there is a symlink() API that can be called without creating a
> separate address space for an external command.
baseunix.fpsymlink()
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On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:43:52 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote about Re:
[fpc-pascal] programmatically creating desktop icons under Linux:
> On 7 February 2010 23:42, Graeme Geldenhuys
> wrote:
> >
> > Creating symbolic links (ls -s ) should suffice.
>
> Typo, it should
On 7 February 2010 23:42, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>
> Creating symbolic links (ls -s ) should suffice.
Typo, it should read: ln -s
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On 7 February 2010 20:31, brian wrote:
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Creating symbolic links (ls -s ) should suffice. But if
you want to do it the "official" way by creating desktop shortcuts via
the *.desktop files, then read the follow spec document.
http://standards.freedes
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:31:15 -0500, brian wrote:
> This question is specific to a PC running Kubuntu 9.1 64-bit with a
> KDE 4.1 desktop.
>
> I have a large number of PDFs. Their filenames are not meaningful, but
> I do have a list of filename versus contents.
>
> I'd like to be able to read t
