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Message: [QUOTE="dan baker, post: 4777495"] you are using a DOS machine for a web server? scarey! its a little hard to tell exactly what you want... to initiate a script on a web server, it'll have to be in the cgi-bin dir, executable, and follow whatever naming convension your host defines. You also need to protect it so that unknown users cant start it up! If you are running a process on your local PC and just wanting to display status in a "public" place, that is possible too... anyway, one approach would be to have your script overwrite or append to a file somwhere in your loop with "reasonable" frequency which is either a plain HTML file, or included as a text file in a .shtml file if your server can handle that. If the HTML has a meta-refresh in the header, you can make it reload itself periodically, like maybe avery minute, and display any new status updates. Not "real-time", but probably close enough. this is dead simple if the script is running on the server. If the script is running on some offline machine, you'll have to add steps to upload the status file to your webserver. d [/QUOTE]