with php running on the same system as the my.exe, use: $last_response_line=system(my <my_parm>); $last_response_line=exec(my <my_parm>,&array_output_lines); echo "<pre>\n"; passthru(my <my_parm>); # response from 'my' will go to the browser directly echo </pre>\n"; # using back tick $response=`my <my_parm>`; Regards, Edward Willekens --- On Sat, 1/16/10, G.M. Nazmul Hossain. <gmnazmul_cse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: G.M. Nazmul Hossain. <gmnazmul_cse@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Help To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 12:40 AM I need to open a exe file from local computer in a specific drive using php. how can i do it ?????? ->Regards -G.M. Nazmul Hossain. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]