Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support

[Richard Stallman]

    I'm not sure I understand. Windows itself uses file extensions to
    determine the file type. If .mailcap does not have the .lnk extension,
    then even Explorer will not recognize it as a shortcut, so there is no
    point in Emacs recognizing it as such.

If shortcuts are used only for executing a file, then Emacs could
handle it by specifying the optional suffix when calling openp.