Ruud, I don't see this as being outside of the boundaries of KiXtart. I see this as another oppurtunity for KiXtart to define itself as the best solution administrative scripting.
I firmly stand by the belief that accuracy is paramount. When it comes to automating these tasks, I need to be assured that the results I expect of an explicitly defined command are exaclty what I get. One could argue that given the new API's, I am getting what I ask for, but we all know that is not the case (historically). For most of us, this has seemed to have gone un-noticed for several years, but I don't think that adds weight to the counter argument. This was recently brought to my attention in the application I was writing where Dir(*.xml) delivered disasterous results.
Of course we can resort to UDF's, but then what's sense in even having any base language commands if that's always going to be the solution?
In summary, I think that this would be a worthy addition to Kixtart for all the above reasons.
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