On 5 Jul 2018 08:29:05 GMT, R.Wieser wrote:

Its not really secure though ... (you're re-creating the origional cleartext
file, which you need to remember to delete - every time)

SOLVED!

Thanks for everyone's purposefully helpful advice.
Both commands worked fine in their very first tests today!

This brings up a ciphertext passwd file on Windows:
Start Run vipw {Enter}

This greps a plaintext database file on Windows:
Start Run phone susan {Enter}

My next steps will be to try to figure out how best to network those files
so that one file serves all the compute devices, whether they're Linux,
Windows, Android or iOS.

If you have advice as to how to accomplish that goal, please let us know!