In Windows you can map a network or local disk directory to a letter drive. I have found that I needed to do this recently because Windows doesn’t handle well directory names with spaces in them, even though the recommended folder for applications is C:\Program Files! When writing scripts that reference a directory path with a space you need to either escape the black space, quote the path, or map a letter drive to the application path.

To map or mount a letter drive to a network resources you can use the following command.

net use z: \\MY-SERVER\PATH\TO\MAP

When the resource to map in your local disk drive you can use the following command.

subst z: c:\PATH\TO\MAP

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