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#67860 - 2002-07-07 03:17 AM KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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... and easily? how to verify scripts?

Dear,

A lot of you are running still an old kixtart release.
Sometimes we see questions like:
  1. what are the changes with latest release?
  2. how can I verify possible compatibility problems with mine scripts?
  3. can I easily upgrade our servers?
  4. can I easily upgrade our clients?
Answer 1: what are the changes with latest release?

On our page http://home.wanadoo.nl/scripting/specials/release.htm
you can see when kixtart macro's, commands and functions were introducing.
Upgrading from an older Kixtart 3.x release to Kixtart 3.63 will not a big
problem. Between both of them only new issues were adding.
So Kixtart 3.63 is fully downwards compatible with earlier releases.

For the OLExxx users an upgrade to Kixtart 4.x release can't be done. At this
kixtart 4.x release the OLExxx are removing by Ruud. New capabilities has been
added. For more about it see COM forum on this site.
Also the dim command has been redesigned. In some situations you should
use redim instead of dim command.

Other new important issue for kixtart 4.x releases are
- user defined functions (see UDF forum and scriptlogic for more)
- floating point values
of course Ruud has add also capabilities which has to deal with the
newer windows 2000 and XP releases.

(Actual release: kixtart 4.10 rc 2 (build 95))

Answer 2: how can I verify possible compatibility problems with mine scripts?

To verify possible compatibility problems with your scripts run
our tools kixstrip and kixref. There are version for Kixtart 3.63, 4.0x
and 4.10
Possible calls are
- kixstrip410 input.kix output.kix /block_check /show_structure
- kixref410 input.kix output /warnings

(see for more info kixstrip & kixref)

Answer 3: can I easily upgrade our servers?

An upgrade of your server can easily be done. For the Windows 9x users we advise
you to upgrade the kxrpc service at the same time as you are upgrading
your other kixtart files.

Answer 4: can I easily upgrade our clients?

For an easy upgrade of your clients with f.e. kixtart 4.02 you can use
our installation package kix402update.exe. Always the correct
files will be installed on your clients.

At the moment there are six releases:
  • kix362update.exe
  • kix363update.exe
  • kix400update.exe
  • kix401update.exe
  • kix402update.exe (final release)
  • kix410update.exe (release candidate 2)
Each time it will verify the correctness of your release. Incorrect
files will be replaced and missing files will be added. Regardless of
file attributes.
To prevent running more times we are using a check-file.
You can easily upgrade it with our iexpress package.
Questions: how?
A way of installing/updating kixtart of your clients: with only one additional statement

For installing or updating of your clients you can download on of our packages kix???update.exe
from our site http:\\home.wanadoo.nl\scripting.

Your BATch file may look like:
code:
@echo off
\\server\NETLOGON\kix402update.exe /q
kix32 \\server\NETLOGON\your_script.kix
@echo off

or
code:
@echo off
%0\..\kix402update.exe /q
kix32 %0\..\your_script.kix
@echo off

greetings.

btw: for the complete stories about upgrading/installing kixtart on clients
see the topics

kix???update & wkix4??update
kix???registry

btw: kix???registry installs also kixtart binaries on your clients but it creates
also the file associations with kixtart files.
btw: wkix4??registry installs the console-less version of kixtart binaries on your
lients.

(our reaction 3200 to the board)
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#67861 - 2002-07-07 03:34 AM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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this is one topic which in my opinion should be added to FAQ...
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#67862 - 2002-07-07 07:39 AM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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Done..

http://kixtart.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000049

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#67863 - 2002-07-07 08:12 AM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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have suggestions though...
topic:
KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily

to:
Kix upgrade: what are those new features? can upgrade be done without any danger?

for simplicity...

for same purpose perhaps lines:
quote:
kix???update & wkix4??update
kix???registry

btw: kix???registry installs also kixtart binaries on your clients but it creates
also the file associations with kixtart files.
btw: wkix4??registry installs the console-less version of kixtart binaries on your
lients.

could be:
quote:

kix???update - installs kixtart binaries on your clients and creates file-associations with kixtart files.
wkix4??update - installs the console-less version of kixtart binaries on your clients without file-associations.
kix???registry - creates file-associations for edit/run capabilities

cheers,

[ 07 July 2002, 08:14: Message edited by: Lonkero ]
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#67864 - 2002-07-07 07:53 PM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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Done..

Please find also a reaction to this as well..

- Kent
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#67865 - 2002-07-07 08:59 PM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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yeah.
thanks.

the addings you made seems good info.

cheers,
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#67866 - 2002-07-07 10:07 PM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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I hope so.. There seems to be alot of questions lately with Batch File implementation for Kix Scripts, etc.

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#67867 - 2002-07-07 10:09 PM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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it just means that you may have to be busy updating that faq [Smile]

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#67868 - 2002-07-08 01:10 AM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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Dear,

Good idea to copy it to FAQ forum.
Complete story find as FAQ topic
http://81.17.37.55/board/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000049
Lonkero, you made some good suggestions.
greetings.

btw:
the URL links of kixref & kixstrip in our "answer 2" are gone.
Also the "scriptlogic" UDF link in our "answer 1" is gone.
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#67869 - 2002-07-08 08:33 PM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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Now compliant with Kixtart 4.10 final release (build 98)
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#67870 - 2002-07-08 10:15 PM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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Now compliant with Kixtart 4.10 final release (build 99)
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#67871 - 2003-01-20 02:05 AM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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Dear,

Our release page is now compliant with KiXtart 2001 - 4.20 release candidate 1 (build 123).
Now available by

Summary of Site
&
Home - Kix Info

pages.
greetings.
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#67872 - 2003-10-16 07:56 PM Re: KIX-INFO: what are those new features? can upgrade done without any danger and easily
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Dear,

We have update relevant issues related to kixtart 4.22 rc1.

Currently available:
- kix422.zip
- kix422update.exe
- kix422registry.exe
- wkix422update.exe
Also
- release page
- kixref422.exe
- kixstrip422.exe

During this operation we have also update the previous
issues
- kix420update.exe
- kix421update.exe
- kix420registry.exe
- kix421registry.exe
- wkix420update.exe
- wkix421update.exe
- kixstrip420.exe
Reason for the iexpress package update is the new debug layout and it is using
the @producttype instead of our own OS algorithm.
Reason for the kixstrip update is the new /debug option layout.
Also kixstrip gets some layout correction. It shows better for which kixtart
release it was design.
greetings.

[ 16. October 2003, 19:57: Message edited by: MCA ]
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