You already have the basic answer you were looking for,
but I thought I would mention that the program "test.exe"
isn't going to run "on your server", the program executable
is going to load and execute on the client computer you call
the program from.

Not being a MSDOS kinda guy, I'm not sure how you would do
the remote run type of thing, I know that you can do it
with the unix and linux systems, and that there probably is
a method of doing this

Maybe one of the other Monks will have something on that
now that the distiqution is made.


In reply to Re: Launcing Executables in CGI by Anonymous Monk
in thread Launcing Executables in CGI by Gremlin

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