[Bug 5631] New: wine can't handle .lnk files on the commandline

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5631

           Summary: wine can't handle .lnk files on the commandline
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-binary
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: dank at kegel.com


Many installers create .lnk files on the desktop.
It would be nice if doubleclicking on these worked.
That would be easy to arrange if
$ wine MAHJONGG.lnk
worked.  At the moment, it fails with
wine: could not load L"Z:\\home\\dank\\Desktop\\MAHJONGG.lnk": Bad EXE format for 

A helper script, ~/bin/winelnk, can work around this:

FILE=`winedump lnk $1 | grep LocalPath | sed 's/.*(.//;s/.).*//'`
wine "$FILE"

but this is a kludge, as it doesn't handle all kinds of shortcuts
(cf http://wiki.winehq.org/ShellLink, 
http://wiki.winehq.org/MsiAdvertisedShortcuts).
Better to make Wine handle these without a helper script.

(One app that creates a .lnk when installed is Daniel Valot's mahjongg,
http://dvalot.free.fr/games.htm.  But many do, that's not a special app.)

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