Did you mean that you want the OUTPUT of a script to populate a part of a page ?

If I understand your stated requirement - trying to populate a part of a table via a script - this cannot be accomplished without frames, or very fancy AJAX.

For what I think you can do - is execute the $file, and print the result as part of the main CGI.

Update: Oops - just noticed you used backticks to do just that.

So what part of the output are you unhappy with ?

Please post desired, and current output.