Kixtart was the first scripting language I have used that did not accept practically anything for an argument after the script. As an example, back in the DOS days and even today with some of the apps you can use, the generally well known syntax to get help is: app.exe /?, not app.exe $help="/?". Granted, if there are no args after the app.exe you could still show help. However, for myself I would like to be able to use the old style for consistency sake.

My idea was to write a bat file that not only accepted the preconceived way of sending arguments to a kixtart script, but also give a pseudo @commandline option for people who, like myself, like to use the "/" options. KIXSTART.BAT gives me that option. To make this work I have renamed my kix32.exe to kix32-420.exe. Then I renamed the kixstart.bat to kix32.bat and modified the code to point to the kix32-420.exe file. Now either type of arguments is accepted by a kixtart script.