Hi Joe, I think you'll need to use a third-party COM object for that. Fortunately, there are a couple of free ones around... http://aspdll.com/com/category.asp?id=15 Cheers, Peter From: Joe Ngo <chilijoe at gmail.com> Hi, is there a way to execute and external command-line program in classic ASP and capture its output? I'm looking for something similar to the system() command in PHP. http://ph.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php Thanks