Easy there P, you'll be hoist by your own petard.

Setting "ASCII" on and so-on does *not* provide a STDOUT stream. It allows KiXtart output to be _redirected_ in a limited number of scenarios.

As an example of the limitation, you cannot spawn a kixtart process and attach IO pipes to it in any sensible manner. This means that you cannot for instance use KiXtart as a CGI without coding up wrapper batch files.