Re: [WinMac] sending a Windows shortcut file
From: Tom Roth (tomroth@wfubmc.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 11:38:18 PST
> > Tom Roth wrote:
> >This might be a bit off topic but I was wanting to send a Windows
> >shortcut via email to certain folks here in the office but everytime I
> >try it sends the original instead of the shortcut.
>
> Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
> That's the correct behavior for a mail client. Try
> Stuffing/Zipping the shortcut first, however...
These folks will have enough trouble creating the ERD as it is. If they
have to unzip something first they'll be lost for sure. I might have to
think of some other way to make it easy for them.
> > Then I tried sending it from my Macintosh and that corrupted
> > the shortcut file. Well, it might have been the email that
> > corrupted it, not the Mac.
>
> Depending on what type of shortcut is was (ie. a shortcut to
> a file, URL, COM object, etc.) would determine if the shortcut could
> even pass safely to another machine. Some shortcuts URL's are
> pretty simple and can be passed along, but others reference data in
> your registry, so they won't work no matter what you do.
It was a short cut to a the file, rdisk.exe that every Windows NT user
has in their c:\winnt\system32\ folder.
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Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Dept of Biomedical Communications
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