SHORTCUT VORTEX

[Master of Reality]

it turns out that, hex workshop wont open shortcuts (easily), But i got winhex and it opens shortcuts.

[Master of Reality]

i am gonna try it now, thanks

[ March 26, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]

[Master of Reality]

i did a bit more testing with this:
i made 123.lnk point to 321.lnk then put it in a zip file. I did the same with 321.lnk.

now, i unzipped the files contents to my desktop, and nothing happened, i opened each up in winhex (didnt change anything at all) after i closed winhex, i had the error come up, clicked close, and explorer restarted without my active desktop.
the shortcuts were still there, i clicked on them (wouldnt execute), poked and prodded them, but nothing more happened.

i also tried this in another normal folder, and nothing happened.

Perhaps, that the active desktop is what enables it to crash without execution?

[caustic]

Ok, here.

http://www.geocities.com/garyoneill2/v0rteX.zip

extract to C:\
view C:\

(Use dos to delete)

[Master of Reality]

doesnt work. I can only get my zip to work when extracted to desktop...

and whats "stub.log" it says in the hex editor of "4321.lnk"? Both of the shortcuts point to something called stub.log, you forgot to hexedit them to point to eachother

[ April 02, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[caustic]

stub.log is just a file that was in C:\.
There is just one reference in the shortcut that needs to be edited in order to change the target of the shortcut, I left the others intact as I am a lazy boy. Has anyone made any improvements to it? Like getting it to work in any directory?

[Master of Reality]

i have yet to get it to work after extracting it from a .zip file (or from a self extracting .exe)

has anyone tried this in linux yet?
i suspect that linux would gracefully drop the loop.

[ April 06, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[caustic]

I have figured out that the version on www.geocitites.com/garyoneill2 only works with windows NT/2000/XP and not 9x as the shortcuts use a slightly different format, but it should work. I hope to get both working versions uploaded soon.

www.geocitites.com/garyoneill2

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by caustic:
I have figured out that the version on www.geocitites.com/garyoneill2 only works with windows NT/2000/XP and not 9x as the shortcuts use a slightly different format, but it should work. I hope to get both working versions uploaded soon.

www.geocitites.com/garyoneill2

I used winzip to make a self-extracting executable, that way it will extract it to the proper directory for the user.
But it got deleted when i formated windows (i'll make another one on my windoze machine)