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so, I might need to ask why this proggies needs to be that silly?


I wish I knew. It was not very cleverly written, but as I said in my original post, I do not have access to the sources and I do not feel like rewriting it from scratch.

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next, you can work around these issues you have with many ways.
one being kixcrypt.


I'm not familiar with kixcrypt. What does it do, and where can I find out more about it?

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you can also use any SFX capable packaging software to produce exe that allows the switches... etc.


This sounds like more trouble than it's worth. I can simply use Perl to do what I had hoped to do with KiX.

-- Jeff
-- aka The Eternal Newbie
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