First, thank you all for your replies; much appreciated as this has been bugging me for quite some time.

Morgan, your solution was just what I needed, interestingly though when I tried using system() before I couldn't get it to work as I wanted. Implementing the way you exampled did the trick.

At first it wasn't working correctly, but that led me to a glaring error in the code that I'd been missing. All is fixed now and working nicely.

Thank you all for your assistance.