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

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From: banfield
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 00:00

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I recall seeing the answer to this at http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/

Has lots of good stuff.
-Drew

Paul Norrish wrote:
> 
> 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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