You are right and wrong at the same time. If you want all these gui goodies why don't use visual basic ? For me kixtart should be a non interactive string and command interpreter. What I want is more string processing functions and file read/write capabilities. I want also to take stdout and pass it directly to variables and arrays.

The scripts are easily editing pieces of text that everyone can make corrections changes and fit ot its needs. I also want some more macros and some winsock functions to create start and stop tcp servers !

There are cases would need much more time and effort to write a visual basic or c++ program in order to do the same things with a clever and small kix or perl script.

PS. whats wrong with dos ?! I am still using it and love it! Many times windows problems can be corrected only from dos mode. By the way I also preffer the old dos games and coin up emulators than windows 3d bloody craps : )

[This message has been edited by novastar (edited 26 May 2000).]