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Is it possible for a Perl script running on a Unix/Linux platform to create Windows Shortcuts?

If I want to create a *nix symlink, I'll call symlink();, if i'm running a script on windows and I want to create a shortcut, I'd use Win32::Shortcut.

But what if I want to create a Windows shortcut if running a script from a *nix machine?

I'm accessing a SMB share on a Windows Server 2003 machine from my *nix machine.

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Well, I don't know if Samba provides an API for that. On the other hand, Windows shortcuts are just .lnk files in a specific format.

Sinan Ünür  2010-09-29 13:30:50
So I should be able to write a function that could generate this specific file type? Are there any tutorials available regarding writing binary files?
Powertieke  2010-09-30 06:53:38
@Powertieke: In theory, yes you should be able to write a function to create such a file.
Sinan Ünür  2010-09-30 11:53:42

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