Hi Allen,

thanks for your fast reply! I tried all of these but unfortunately none worked. I guess that the source of the problem is the Kixtart execution routine itself, not the parsing of the source code.

I worked around the problem for now with "ldifde", which writes a properly prepared LDIF file to the Active Directory LDAP server, but this is too inconvenient to take this as a general solution. I think Kixtart should be modified to allow commands with hyphen, at least when the command is COM related.
Since I will have to write several scripts which work with this type of LDAP attribute shortly, I fear that I will have to use another scripting language. Sigh...

Regards
Christoph