Eric Butera wrote: > You should never use exec & friends when there is another way around > the problem. It is a security concern. Why is it a security concern to execute another bit of code? I really fail to see any security concern in doing e.g. exec('gzip -c /tmp/myinputfile') /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php