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Re: Fwd: [nohack] Yet another way to disguise files.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mock@ACTIVESTATE.COM)
Mon May 22 02:20:20 2000
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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 19:34:14 -0700
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On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 01:59:18PM -0700, Dan Harkless wrote:
> Ron DuFresne <dufresne@WINTERNET.COM> writes:
> > Has anyone verified if this is also the case on NT boxen?
>
> Yes -- I did my testing on NT 4.0 Service Pack 5.
>
> One thing I've discovered since I made the NeverShowExt -> AlwaysShowExt
> changes mentioned by the original author is that all shortcuts now have .lnk
> on the ends of their names. Kind of annoying (wish NTFS was a real file
> system that allowed links without this "hide the file extension" hack).
>
Get ActivePerl 5.6 at http://www.activestate.com
perl -e "link 'c:\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe', 'c:\\winnt\\profiles\\mock\\desktop\\perl.exe'"
works much like a unix hardlink and can get rid of at least a few (the ones
that don't require params) of your .lnk files
works with UNC path names as well
mock
