Tim,

>It _could_ potentially be done by Squeak but the current system has no
>file linking capability. It is one of those little jobs that the basic
>OS stuff is well suited to and (current) Squeak is just barely suited
>to, so it is likely to be easier to use the OS scripting.
>

Since this doesn't need to be cross-platform, you should give some thought
to using OSProcess and/or CommandShell.  See:

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/708
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1914

You could do almost everything in a Squeak script, which would use
OSProcess to invoke ln (or whatever) appropriately.

	-Bob