Is it possible to run DOS commands from an html page? I have an intranet & would like to be able to use the DOS COPY command to move files submitted in a form. My users have WIN95,WIN98, and WIN2000 and are using Internet Explorer 5.5. Thanks

That would be a horrible breach of network security. Either use [FORM ACTION="mailto:an_account@root.com" METHOD=POST ENCTYPE="text/html"] to send the entries to an account at the central post office or use a CGI\PERL script to merge the entries into a database.

Hmmm, as much as this really, really, really pains me to say it: You can use MS FrontPage 2000 to create the form and have it easily merge the data into Excel or Acess 2000 using Outlook 2000 as the carrier. FrontPage will look after all the XML scripting. Now, excuse me while I wash my brain out with bleach.

NO, an HTML file can not write to a client hard drive (unless you use cookies). It is best to use ASP Active Server Pages, and have the request write to a Access or SQL Database. Or, you can write a C++ program to recive the request via an HTML form, from there, the program can do the actual COPY. However, the HTML itself can not do the work.

Mark

The database could reside in the clients folder on the server. In that case, CGI\PERL or XMS\XML scripting would work just fine. That's pretty common practice.