Definition of "subst" []

• An abbreviation of substantive and substitute.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Why not use subst from the command line and map a virtual drive to the original location, hence leaving those files untouched?"
• "There's an old DOS command called subst that you may use to assign easy-to-remember drive letters to any local folder in Windows."
• "A softlink is sorta like the old MS-Doc 'subst' command - if that helps anyone understand it better."