Re: Command line operations

At 10:18 07/07/00 +0530, Anurag Bhalla wrote: >Is there a way by which a command line operation can be performed in windows environment through a php program. >My program has to run a software through command line (with arguments provided by the php program) which generates a file and that file is used by the program. > >Regards >Anurag > Did you look in the section of the manual on "Program Execution Functions" Chapter XIV? This describes 'escapeshellcmd','exec', 'system' and 'passthru' - although I don't know how well these work on a MS-Windows OS. If you want to spawn a background process, that seems to a lot more tricky as you need to disconnect the process from the current session - someone posted a wee 'C' program to the list which does this in Unix - see the archive for more info. HTH Colin