Windows LNK file format

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hello All,

I am working with wine and want to develop a simple application that
will read the Win85/98/2000 LNK files that are used to hold the
application data for the desktop icons and url.

does anyone have any information on these files, or has anyone done
any work with some code to read/write these files?

Cheers,
Lonnie

[Aric Stewart]

I would say write a winelib app using the IShellLink and IPersistantFile
interfaces. Basically do it the same way as you would under windows. 
However i seem to remember that you need to call COM functions
differently for winelib apps than windows apps. Can someone else confirm
that for me?

-aric

Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am working with wine and want to develop a simple application that
> will read the Win85/98/2000 LNK files that are used to hold the
> application data for the desktop icons and url.
>
> does anyone have any information on these files, or has anyone done
> any work with some code to read/write these files?
>
> Cheers,
> Lonnie
>
> --
>  Lonnie Cumberland
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[Peter Hunnisett]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:44:38 -0600, Aric Stewart said:
> I would say write a winelib app using the IShellLink and IPersistantFile
>  interfaces. Basically do it the same way as you would under windows. 
>  However i seem to remember that you need to call COM functions
>  differently for winelib apps than windows apps. Can someone else confirm
>  that for me?
>
> -aric

Shouldn't need to do anything particularly special. Just make sure you're using
a resonable enough compiler and compile the Winelib application with the
-DICOM_USE_COM_INTERFACE_ATTRIBUTE . Have a look at
wine/include/wine/obj_base.h at the top comments for a little more information.
Otherwise, yes, you will need to do things a little differently.

Ciao,
Peter
> Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am working with wine and want to develop a simple application that
> > will read the Win85/98/2000 LNK files that are used to hold the
> > application data for the desktop icons and url.
> >
> > does anyone have any information on these files, or has anyone done
> > any work with some code to read/write these files?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lonnie
> >
> > --
> >  Lonnie Cumberland
> >  OutStep Technologies Incorporated
> >  EMAIL: [email protected]
> >       : [email protected]
> >
> > The Basis Express Virtual Office
> >                &
> >  Data Backup and Recovery Services
> >
> > URL: http://www.basis-express.com
> >
> > "The Virtual Office without boundaries!!!"