Is getstatusoutput() the perfered method to run os commands from within a python script or is there something more generic? This works fine, but I'm just thinking that since this is part of a unix only module.... -- __ / ) / Bob van der Poel /--< ____/__ bvdpoel at uniserve.com /___/_(_) /_) http://users.uniserve.com/~bvdpoel