Alias-like file on a CD that'll work for both Mac and PC?

Hello,
I want to write a data CD (using Toast 6) using the format "Mac & PC" that has an alias-like file as one of the files that points to another file also on the CD. And I want the alias-like file to work on a PC as well as a Mac. Possible? What? How?
Thanks,
John.

Sorry for neglecting this thread.
I haven't tried any of the suggestions because 1) I'm not brilliant with the terminal and 2) I don't have a PC to try this on -- I was hoping to find a sure, reliable way of doing it without the need for testing it.
I don't know whether Toast picks up hardlinks correctly, one could try once and possibly be able to use it instead in step 3.
Are hard links and normal files not indistinguishable? In fact one in the same thing? Are normal files not a block of data with one hard link pointing to that data -- that's what files are I think. I could easily be wrong but I think that's the situation. If that's so then hard links will defininely work because files work. I think hard links are the most likely to work. And I reckon, if hard links are one in the same as files, then Toast should have no problem.
I can't test it though, and because I can't be sure, I'm probably just not going to do it -- burn the PC disk (for someone else) without any alias type file attempts.
Thanks very much for all the suggestions.
John

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