shortcut : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: shortcut	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for shortcut
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shortcut n a route shorter than the usual one [syn: shortcut, cutoff, crosscut]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
shortcut {Microsoft Corporation}'s term for a {symbolic link}, stored as a file with extension ".lnk". Shortcuts first appeared in 1996 in the {Windows 95} {operating system}. Windows shortcuts can link to any file or directory ("folder"), including those on remote computers, using {UNC} paths. Each shortcut can also have its own {icon}. A shortcut that links to an executable file can pass {arguments} and specify the directory in which the command should run. Unlike a {Unix} {symbolic link}, a shortcut does not always behave exactly like the target file or directory. Compare {pif}. (2001-12-18)