Code In Action

Just a few weeks back, I was working on a very old application where in all the directory paths used in the code were hard coded and pointing to a S:/ drive. Since I did not have a drive "S" on my machine, and I had to make the application up and running, I was left two choices: 1. Rename all the directory paths in the application, OR 2. Create a Virtual Drive Option 1 seemed to be a lot time consuming and hence I chose option 2 which I felt was a lot easier to do. I searched on the net, and found out one command which could be used to create virtual drives. Windows OS has an application called " subst"  which helps in creating virtual drives mapped to the local folder. The syntax of the command is: SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path] Example: subst S: C:\Dev When you run this command,  a drive will be created with a letter S: assigned to a local folder "Dev" on drive C.  This is an easy way to create Virtual Drives, though the drives