> 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 have tended to treat them as two line batch files (I appreciate they are 
not really that, and probably cause somewhat more to happen behind the 
scenes) with the first line setting the default directory to whatever is 
listed in the "Start in" field, and then running the program. In reality 
they do cause the OS to tweak things when the program runs (e.g. the 
"normal" or "maximised" window, and the compatibility) so are not really a 
batch file in the DOS sense.

But from distant memories of doing the M$ courses for WinNT many years ago, 
there is a facility to do *nix style directory links on NTFS, but it seems 
to be considered "too hard" to get used. Another way seems to be to map 
drive letters to local share points, but I haven't tried that. 

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