Simple, but useful aliases; this can be done other means--of course--but this is dead simp works on EVERY Windows machine on the planet.

alias.bat

;= @echo off
;= rem Call DOSKEY and use this file as the macrofile
;= %SystemRoot%\system32\doskey /listsize=1000 /macrofile=%0%
;= rem In batch mode, jump to the end of the file
;= goto end
;= rem ******************************************************************
;= rem *   Filename: aliases.bat
;= rem *    Version: 1.0
;= rem *     Author: Ben Burnett <[email protected]>
;= rem *    Purpose: Simple, but useful aliases; this can be done by
;= rem *             other means--of course--but this is dead simple and 
;= rem *             works on EVERY Windows machine on the planet.
;= rem *    History: 
;= rem * 22/01/2002: File Created (Syncrude Canada).
;= rem * 01/05/2007: Updated author's address, added new macros, a 
;= rem *             history and some new helpful comments.
;= rem * 19/06/2007: Added Notepad, Explorer and Emacs macros.
;= rem * 20/06/2007: Fixed doskey macrofile= path problem: it is now not 
;= rem *             a relative path, so it can be called from anywhere.
;= rem ******************************************************************

;= Doskey aliases
h=doskey /history

;= File listing enhancements
ls=dir /x $*
ll=dir /w $*
la=dir /x /a $*
x=exit $*

;= Directory navigation
up=cd ..
pd=pushd

;= Copy and move macros
cp=copy
mv=move

;= Delete macros
rm=del /p $*
rmf=del /q $*
rmtmp=del /q *~ *# 2>nul

;= Fast access to Notepad 
n=notepad $* 

;= Fast access to Explorer
e=explorer .

te=telnet $*
p=ping $*
ns=nslookup $*

;= :end
;= rem ******************************************************************
;= rem * EOF - Don't remove the following line.  It clears out the ';' 
;= rem * macro. Were using it because there is no support for comments
;= rem * in a DOSKEY macro file.
;= rem ******************************************************************
;=