We advise you to install your kixtart binaries on your clients.

Questions: how?

A way of installing/updating kixtart of your clients: with only one additional statement

For the installation of kixtart at your local workstation we see many version of doing it.
Most statements in your BATch file are using for this duty.
But there is also a way of doing it with a single statement, which doesn't only copy
the required files, but also compare file version information. After completion a logfile
will be created at your local workstation.

Another way of installing/updating kixtart on your clients:

For installing or updating of your clients you can download our packages kix363update.exe
or kix400update.exe from our site http:\\home.wanadoo.nl\scripting .

Possible calls in your logon procedure can be:

As first line of your logon procedure you can use one of following formats:

• x:\kixtart\kix363update.exe /q
  
• %0\..\kix363update.exe /q
  
• if not exist c:\kix363.ok %0\..\kix363update.exe /q
  

• kix32 %0\..\your_script.kix
  

Results of your BATCH can be:

code:

---

@echo off
 %0\..\kix363update.exe /q
 kix32 %0\..\your_script.kix
@echo off

---

code:

---

@echo off
 if not exist c:\kix363.ok %0\..\kix363update.exe /q
 kix32 %0\..\your_script.kix
@echo off

---

After using above programs there will be created a control
file c:\kix363.ok or c:\kix400.ok. So it isn't necessary to
run the installation process again, but we advise to update
(or better: verify) kixtart files always. Reason: a security
leak for running kixtart from clients.

remarks: performance

• only 150 KBytes will be transfered to your workstation. the package has been compressed.
  
• always the correct set of kixtart files will be used. during the execution of scripts
  the user can already starts working.
  
• during installation or updating kixtart you will not get share violation error or busy file
  error. the install.kix scripts runs with his own kixtart version.
  
• for RAS users we create additional authorizations which will run minimum set of script code.
  for them the logon procedure containts as statement:
  if not exist c:\kix363.ok %0\..\kix363update.exe /q
  

Greetings.

btw: related kixtart topic http://kixtart.org/board/Forum2/HTML/000583.html