[Tutor] Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

[Wayne Watson]

I just posted the details a moment ago to Steven.

On 2/28/2010 3:46 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
>
>
> Wayne Watson wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> You tell us to "try this" and give a folder structure:
>>>
>>> Folder1
>>>      track1.py
>>>      data1.txt
>>>      data2.txt
>>>      data3.txt
>>> Folder2
>>>      track1.py
>>>      dset1.txt
>>>      dset2.txt
>>>      ...
>>>      dset8.txt
>>> <snip>
>>
> Maybe one simple test at a time will get better responses.  Since you 
> wouldn't tell me what tabs you saw in Explorer when you did 
> properties, maybe you'll tell me what you see in CMD.
>
> Go to a cmd prompt (DOS prompt), change to the Folder2 directory, and 
> type dir.   paste that result, all of it, into a message.  I suspect 
> you'll see that you don't have track1.py there at all, but track1.py.lnk
>
> If so, that's a shortcut.  The only relevant change in Win7 that I 
> know of is that Explorer shows shortcuts as "link" rather than 
> "shortcut."
>
>
>

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