Yes, I also tried a new download, but as you can see in the edited post above, it fails in a like manner. I believe it is related to the alternate location call because the basic:

kixcrypt.exe qnew.kix

works.

And, my version is listed in my first post as:
kixcrypt version 002.12b.

Thanks

[ 06. December 2002, 20:17: Message edited by: ElegantSol ]
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