We are creating an additional program which can compress and encrypt any type of file.
By a shell automatically decryption and decompression will take place before starting running f.e. kixtart.
Mine experience with kixtart is that

• kixtart creates a very heavy CPU-load by file handling.
  
• kixtart free-format-syntax structure delivers unwanted statements.
  

see:
http://kixtart.org/board/Forum2/HTML/000570.html

Some benchmark results on Pentium 200 MHz:

• script 1: 8618 lines / 282.643 bytes
  compress /e = 5.60 sec 42.807 bytes
  codec /e = 0.38 sec 62.395 bytes
  codec /d = 0.66 sec
  compress /d = 0.72 sec
  
• script 2: 4126 lines / 149.988 bytes
  compress /e = 5.60 sec 23.823 bytes
  codec /e = 0.38 sec 33.914 bytes
  codec /d = 0.66 sec
  compress /d = 0.72 sec
  

Greetings.

[This message has been edited by MCA (edited 03 July 2000).]