G'Day All, My environment is as follows: - MS-SQL 2k on Win32 box - PHP 4.xx, TDS x.xx on Linux box I have a need to call a stored procedure that would execute a DOS application that writes status messages to standard out while it does some work. Ideally I would like to display that stdout information back via PHP as they occur so that the user would see: Line 1 of StdOut Line 2 of StdOut Line 3 of StdOut Line 4 of StdOut As it was generated by the DOS executable. Can someone put me on the road to doing this please? -- Donovan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Donovan J. Edye [www.edye.wattle.id.au] Namadgi Systems [www.namsys.com.au] Voice: +61 2 6285-3460 Fax: +61 2 6285-3459 TVisualBasic = Class(None); Heard just before the 'Big Bang': "...Uh Oh...." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GXExplorer [http://www.gxexplorer.org] Freeware Windows Explorer replacement. Also includes freeware delphi windows explorer components. ----------------------------------------------------------------------