General approach to reading lnk files

Question

Several frameworks and languages seem to have lnk file parsers (C#, Java, Python, certainly countless others), to get to their targets, properties, etc. I\'d like to know wh

Answer 1

@Giorgi: Actually, there is an official specification of lnk files, at least it is claimed so: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd871305%28PROT.10%29.aspx However, for some reason, the link seems to be dead, and after downloading the whole (45Megs) doc package (Application_Services_and_NET_Framework.zip), it appears that it does not include the file MS-SHLLINK.pdf.

But is this really surprising ?

Once you got the file format, shouldn't be too hard to write code to read it.