Ok The cgi executes fine but i wish it to be shown within the web page. so there must be something I'm doing wrong in the page code can you help me the file is in the cgi-bin/bw-counter. thye file which writes to the dat file is in the bw-counter/data.

So the currnet path at the mo. is cgi-bin/bw-counter/bw-counter.cgi

Not to sure if this will help you