Can this be made more efficient?

[taripo]

I run this file when my cmd prompt starts up.

The problem is it takes a second or so longer for the prompt to appear because this is the time it has turned ECHO off and is creating all those doskey macros.

Is there any way to speed the process up?

the issue is not dependent on cdimprove.bat because that isn't called by auto.bat

I can't use Environment Variable style macros because the idea is W:<ENTER> goes to the W drive. I don't want to type %W:% or %$W:%

@echo off

doskey cd\=c:\cdimprove.bat \ % calling the bat for the change of prompt %
doskey cd..=c:\cdimprove.bat ..

doskey C:=c:\cdimprove.bat C:
doskey D:=c:\cdimprove.bat D:
doskey E:=c:\cdimprove.bat E:
doskey F:=c:\cdimprove.bat F:
doskey G:=c:\cdimprove.bat G:


doskey U:=c:\cdimprove.bat U:
doskey V:=c:\cdimprove.bat V:
doskey W:=c:\cdimprove.bat W:
doskey X:=c:\cdimprove.bat X:
doskey Y:=c:\cdimprove.bat Y:
doskey Z:=c:\cdimprove.bat Z:

doskey cd=c:\cdimprove.bat $*

doskey shortdirp=PROMPT $p$g
doskey longdirp=PROMPT $P$_$G
cd\

[trebor68]

It is possible to run only one command DOSKEY.
I will hope that will have more speed.

Make a TXT file "DOSKEY_MACROS.TXT":

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cd\=c:\cdimprove.bat \ % calling the bat for the change of prompt %
cd..=c:\cdimprove.bat ..

C:=c:\cdimprove.bat C:
D:=c:\cdimprove.bat D:
E:=c:\cdimprove.bat E:
F:=c:\cdimprove.bat F:
G:=c:\cdimprove.bat G:

U:=c:\cdimprove.bat U:
V:=c:\cdimprove.bat V:
W:=c:\cdimprove.bat W:
X:=c:\cdimprove.bat X:
Y:=c:\cdimprove.bat Y:
Z:=c:\cdimprove.bat Z:

cd=c:\cdimprove.bat $*

shortdirp=PROMPT $p$g
longdirp=PROMPT $P$_$G

And now the batch file:

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@echo off
doskey /macrofile=DOSKEY_MACROS.TXT
cd\

[taripo]

Runs instantly. Fantastic. Thanks..

no need to wait for the dos prompt to load up now!