On Windows95 you can make a 'shortcut' to any file or folder. As an icon, if you
double-click on it, it works just like an alias - the system fires up whatever
program is associated with the target.
The problem is that the shortcut itself is a little binary file, with the
extension .lnk . So it's a facility at the operating system level, not
automatically recognized directly by executables.

It should be possible to find out the format of a lnk file, so that Csound can be
extended to recognize it.

Richard Dobson


Nicola Bernardini wrote:

> [snip]    ... on some systems, namely Windows 95
> or Mac OS, there are things like "connections" and "aliases" which
> at first sight may look like unix's symbolic links. I do not know
> about macintoshes, but unfortunately the connections on Win95 do not
> work as symbolic links, that is, csound is not able to read files
> that are just connections (or aliases, if you wish) to sound files
> (at least that was the case the last time I looked at it).
> On unix systems these things work, that's all: you can apply a symbolic
> link to a sound file, name it soundin.xx and csound will read it
> as a sound file.
>
> Nicola
>
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> Nicola Bernardini
> E-mail: nicb@axnet.it
>
> Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe
> the picture.  Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described
> with pictures.