Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Hm... Depending on what you want to do with symbolic links, Windows
> may be considered to have something like that. It seems you are using
> them for executable files. For that, the .lnk shortcut files work
> similar to symbolic links.

I thought .lnk files were for executables as you say.  I'm talking about a
symbolic link which is really a arbitrary pathname redirector.  Your
application specifies the pathname of the link, but it transparently ends up
manipulating the file the link is pointing to.  Of course I also want to see
the symbolic links as such when I list a directory from the command shell.
Domain/OS and Unix have these.  On those platforms my file system layer uses
the native symbolic links.  Only on Windows I have to do the ".@" file name
kludge.  For example, here is a listing of one of my directories.  My "l"
command shows files, then directories, then symbolic links with their
expansions.  This would look the same on other operating systems that had
native symbolic links:

C:\olin\picprg>l
Directory C:\olin\picprg

picprg.ins.pas        picprg.insall.pas     picprg2.ins.pas
picprg_10.pas         picprg_12f6.pas       picprg_16.pas
picprg_18.pas         picprg_30.pas         picprg_close.pas
picprg_cmd.pas        picprg_cmdovl.pas     picprg_cmds.pas
picprg_cmdw.pas       picprg_config.pas     picprg_convert.pas
picprg_env.pas        picprg_fw.pas         picprg_id.pas
picprg_init.pas       picprg_open.pas       picprg_read.pas
picprg_rsp.pas        picprg_sys.pas        picprg_sysc.c
picprg_thread_in.pas  picprg_tinfo.pas      picprg_util.pas
picprg_write.pas      pic_ctrl.pas          usbprog.h

bat_eusb     bat_eusb17v  bat_eusb8v   bat_pprg     bat_ppwr     bat_prg
datash       doc          driver       log          winap        windr

bat -> bat_eusb
eagle -> ~/eagle/proj/picprg/eusb2
ex -> (cog)examples/pic_prog
prot -> (cog)doc/picprg_prot.txt
s -> (cog)source/picprg


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