Hi, the & executes the next statement unter Windows, it is not passed to ECHO. thanks for the tips on the net-share. You're probably right on this one! do you know how to read stdin from vbscript (wsh)? thanks! _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list Cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt