>>>>> Praveen Pathiyil <praveen.pathiyil at wipro.com> (PP) writes: PP> If any one has any ideas on this or any more elegant methods of doing this, PP> please help me out. Use popen. -- Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP] Private email: P.van.Oostrum at hccnet.nl