Shell script to get shortcut's target on Win32?

[Frank Leahy]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to write a shell script to get the target of a 
shortcut on Windows?

I'm using the aliasReference command, but it returns an unusable file 
name.  For example,

       the aliasReference of "C:\Documents and Settings/frank/My 
Documents/My Pictures/1-originals/IMG_4668 copy 1.JPG.lnk"

returns

       "C:\DOCUME~1/frank/Desktop/Morrone/IMG_46~1.JPG"

which is quite unusable for my purposes.

Many thanks in advance,
-- Frank

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