Talk about your loaded questions!



My reasons i used KiXtart as my logon script back in 1999.

We were in the process of moving from a Novell to a WinNT network, and needed a way to recreate Novell’s logon script/group membership drive mappings... and other stuff.

First was .bat files and ingroup.exe i think... it was slow, and i didn’t like it.

Second was vb script... but the hoops that I, at the time a script noob, had to jump though just to get group memberships, was just painful, also the syntax of vbscript just rubbed me the wrong way. To many steps needed to do simple tasks. Also not all computers in my company at the time were able to run vbscript Win3x to Win9x

I looked at Perl.. for about 30 seconds.

Then i found this little script language called KiXtart, one that MS was pushing as a logon script in the resource kit at the time. It had built in group memberships, the syntax was very close to BASIC (something that i did know very well), also the ability to edit reg entrys, read ini files... and so much stuff built into 1 single easy to use exe, made it the obvious choice.

Then about 6 months later... i found this board.

Reasons today that I still use KiXtart,

I have found that the syntax to be the easiest for non script gurus to be able to modify. Many of my scripts for work once birthed, are never seen by me again. So they need to be easy for others to work on.

Kixforms!

The KORG Collective.

Bryce