Follow-up message:

I have found the code to read a shortcut from Microsoft's Knowledge Base, so I will
have a go adding a symbolic link facility  to Csound.

> On Windows95 you can make a 'shortcut' to any file or folder. As an icon, if you
> double-click on it, it works just like an alias - the system fires up whatever
> program is associated with the target.
> The problem is that the shortcut itself is a little binary file, with the
> extension .lnk . So it's a facility at the operating system level, not
> automatically recognized directly by executables.
>
> It should be possible to find out the format of a lnk file, so that Csound can be
> extended to recognize it.
>
> Richard Dobson