Re: exec

first things first, whats the output from the command ? exec($command, $return); print_r($return); -- Chris Lee lee@mediawaveonline.com "Ajdin Brandic" <abrandic@coventry.ac.uk> wrote in message news:Pine.OSF.3.91.1011010170328.9076A-100000@leofric... > Hi > > I am trying to use exec command (php4 + Win98 + apache). > > exec('c:\mydir\unzip myfile.zip -d c:\mydir\mydata\'); > > I executes without errors but nothing is unzipped. When I run the same > command from the dos prompt it unzips OK. c:\mydir and mydata are > outside the httpdocs directory! > > I have over 300 .zip files which all contain a .mdb file with same table > structure and same name. I wrote script that will read all of them (one > by one) but wish to automate the unzipping process. > > Any ideas. > > Ajdin