From: Timon Christl <me@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T04:33:39+09:00
Subject: Re: How to create Shell Links on Windows?

John Johnson wrote:
> on 7/8/03 1:24 PM, Timon Christl at me@christltimon.de wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>>The problem is, I want to replace a small Delphi-written tool that is
>>only meant to be used on my home PC by a even smaller ruby script. It
>>would be a cleverly written one-liner if I use some of the usual unix
>>tools (ls, tail, sort and ln), but starting up a complete cygwin shell
>>takes a lot longer on my system than starting up a delphi executable (or
>>rubyw.exe).
> 
> 
> I assume you're porting to Linux? I assume you know about Kylix?

No, I'm not porting to Linux. Windows users may use scripts to make life 
easier, just as Linux users do, and that little Delphi program shall get 
replaced by a even smaller ruby script because I don't want to recompile 
it after small changes (and these do occur from time to time, I'm too 
lazy to write it in a more generic and configurable way, plus it would 
not be a small tool anymore).

I'm looking forward to the day I can trash my Windows partition and use 
only Linux (or maybe some flavour of BSD), but then I would not just 
port my little tools, I would completely rewrite them. Until then I want 
  to get along with Windows as comfortable as possible, and Ruby is very 
useful for that.

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