how to get path,file name from shortcut lnk file,help

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From: Paul Norrish
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 00:00

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Before opening a file I have to find out its name and location, because in
some cases the user selects a shortcut file (*.lnk) instead of the data file
itself.

When I fire the Open statement with the *.lnk filename I don't get the
target file opened but the shortcut only.

Is there some kind of "indirect open" statement, solving the shortcut? Or is
there an API to solve the shortcut, i.e. with the lnk filename as an
argument and returning the target filename?

Somewhere I found a format description of "The Windows Shortcut File Format
as reverse-engineered by Jesse Hager" which I will use if there is no easier
way.

Paul
please email me

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From: "Paul Norrish" <pnorrish@home.com>
Subject: how to get path,file name from shortcut lnk file,help
Date: 2000/02/06
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