There is often the tip to use 'echo.'
But that is slow, and it could fail with an error message, as cmd.exe will search first for a file named 'echo' (without extension) and only when the file doesn't exists it outputs an empty line.
You could use echo(. This is approximately 20 times faster, and it works always. The only drawback could be that it looks odd.
More about the different ECHO:/\ variants is at DOS tips: ECHO. FAILS to give text or blank line.
