Hi I don't know if this is possible, but here is what I'm trying to do. I use metacard on a Solaris box. Imagine a card with one button and two windows a and b. I want to be able to stick an ip address in window a and either click on the button or returnInField and see a traceroute output go into field b. Now I've tried put shell (whatever) into window "b" and it seems that Metacard can do this with simple stuff like ls and date and such but has trouble with telnet and traceroute and nslookup type commands....or more likely I dunno what Ima doin ;-) Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks Jim Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.