Thankyou both for your help ... but I don't want to return the wzzip.exe response as an HTML page ... I have another page that I return. I use the code

print "Location: $url1\n";
  print "\n";
[download]

to do this and this is somehow being corrupted by the wzzip command line response when it outputs that it has added the file to the zip folder. I have tried adding the line Content-type: txt/html\n\n prior to the print location syntax ... but it still does not work. I think the answer lies in using filehandles .. but have got a bit stumped about the syntax I need to use. I have tried not using Print after running the wzzip.exe ... but this does not work either and causes the browser to freeze until it times out. Thankyou again for your responses.

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