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RE: v18 vs v17 compile times....


Paul Shirley wrote:
> In message <199705231513.LAA06332@postman.opengroup.org>, Michael
> Condict <condict@opengroup.org> writes
> >       1) Readdir, when returning the names of files in a directory,
> >          should delete the suffix ".lnk" or ".pif", if present.
> >
> >Comments?
> 
> Fairly trivial... .lnk is a common type for linker script files in the
> DOS/Windoze world. With Win95 this is already annoying in explorer, but
> if they get filtered out by renaming this way it will cause some of us
> problems. Perhaps you should also check the system flag before stripping
> the suffix.
> 

And one more comment: the format of explorer's .lnk files is undocumented...

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