• who support the third party kixtart tools like f.e. KixGui, kixcrypt, kixref & kixstrip?
• what are the most common used tools?
  

code:

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- kixcrypt/wkixcrypt (Richard Howard)
- kixref             (MCA)
- kixstrip           (MCA)
- kix__update        (MCA)
- kix__registry      (MCA)
- wkix4_update       (MCA)
- kixlib32           (Shawn)
- kixwin32           (Shawn / kixtart 3.63 / F2-891)
- kixforms           (Shawn)
- kixwinvb           (Alex.H / kixtart 4 / F2-2664)
- kixgui             (Alex.H)
- kixhelp.chm        (Scriptlogic)
- kix_starters_guide (Bryce)
- BBCodeParser       (Lonkero)
- SU                 (Bryce)
- Bat2exec/secure21

- FAQ forum "kixtart.org"
- UDF forum "kixtart.org"
- UDF library "www.scriptlogic.com"

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• authors: MCA
• current release: kixstrip 3.13 for 3.63, 4.0x, 4.10
  July 5th, 2002
• source: http://home.wanadoo.nl/scripting
• documentation: none, see symbol on our homepage has been linked to related http://kixtart.org topic.
• requirements user: none
• requirements developper: it is using the keyword tables and block structures
  of different kixtart releases, which results in different releases.
• support-level (range 1-9): 7
• support:
  - improvements will made based on forum and mail reactions.
  - guarantee compatibility with latest kixtart release
  - guarantee backwards compatibility.
  - trying to return results which doesn't require additional users action before
  using it
• restrictions in usage
  - filenames must be 8.3 format
  - destination file will automatically overwritten
• how to get inform about new releases:
  - as a member of site we inform you about significant changes to our site.
  - see main kixtart.org topics
• main kixtart.org topics
  http://81.17.37.55/board/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=001943
  http://81.17.37.55/board/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000642
• alternative: transform.kix script which you can find at f=2;t=000642

• always:
  examples:
  - before running a script we verify it always with our kixstrip and kixref
  tools
  - by releasing a new script we are using KiXcrypt, which can mean also we
  use it only once a month
• regular (can interpretate as sometimes):
  normally you aren't using the tool/script, because you doesn't have problems
  with your own solution.
  an example of it can be: kix???update.exe for updating your clients.
• none
  you are using alternative for it, or you doesn't need it.
• no opinion
  you have never heard of it, or you doesn't know actually the possibilities
  of it.
  

code:

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 6  1  5 16      1. kixcrypt/wkixcrypt (Richard Howard) for encrypting/decrypting script
                 2. kixref (MCA) for creating cross-reference and warning list
 7  1  5 15       a - kixref (MCA) for creating cross-reference map
 6  3  4 15       b - kixref (MCA) for translating keywords
 7  2  3 16       c - kixref (MCA) for creating a warning list
                 3. kixstrip (MCA) for checking, compressing, reformatting and debugging of your script
 5  4  9 10       a - kixstrip (MCA) for checking your script
 5  2  3 18       b - kixstrip (MCA) for compressing your script
 3  4 10 11       c - kixstrip (MCA) for debugging script
 6  2  3 17       d - kixstrip (MCA) for performance analyse of your script
 5  3  5 15       e - kixstrip (MCA) for reformatting your script
 6  2  1 19      4. kixcheck (MCA) for verifying the correctness of client installations
 5  4  3 16      5. kix__update (MCA) for installing kixtart on clients
 5  4  0 19      6. kix__registry (MCA) for installing kixtart on clients with file-associations
 7  1  2 18      7. wkix4_update (MCA) for installing console-less kixtart version on your clients
 6  1  2 19      8. kixlib32 (Shawn) gui add-ons
 5  2  2 19      9. kixwin32 (Shawn / kixtart 3.63 / F2-891) gui add-ons
 3  5  7 13     10. kixforms (Shawn) gui add-ons
 6  1  0 21     11. kixwinvb (Alex.H / kixtart 4 / F2-2664) gui add-ons
 4  4  5 15     12. kixgui (Alex.H) gui add-ons
 1 14  9  4     13. kixhelp.chm (Scriptlogic) online documentation
 0 17  9  2     14. kix2001.doc (Ruud v Velsen) original documentation. the Bible of KiXtart
 2  2  8 16     15. kix_starters_guide (Bryce) kixtart guide for beginners
 5  1  5 16     16. BBCodeParser (Lonkero) for an easy way of cut-n-paste of kixtart.org topic code
 4  0  7 17     17. SU (Bryce) for running script with f.e. administrator rights
 5  0  4 19     18. Bat2exec/secure21 (other) for making your BAT, COM & EXE files secure
. 
 0  9 16 3      19. FAQ forum "kixtart.org"
 0 11 15 2      20. UDF forum "kixtart.org"
 1  3 17 7      21. UDF library "www.scriptlogic.com"
.
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kixtart 4.10    13
kixtart 4.02    12
kixtart 4.00     0
kixtart 3.6x     3
kixtart 3.5x     0
kixtart 3.4x     0

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• the original documentation and online help are very useful. Hardly
  everybody is using them. The Starters Guide from Bryce supplies a
  need.
• the FAQ and UDFs forum are visiting very regular.
• security of your scripts doesn't seems to be a high issue. the
  capabilities of SU are in some situations very necessary.
• the possibilities of translating keywords by kixref and
  checking, debugging and reformatting of kixstrip are the
  used once for both tools.
• for the installation of kixtart files the most of you are
  using their own method.
• the GUIs becomes popular. some of them are using the old ones.
• most of them are using the latest kixtart releases. only a very
  few of them are using kixtart 3.6x.