Hi! John Hunter wrote: [ snip ] > zunbeltz> os.system('wget -q -O foo.txt http://foo.html') [ snip ] > h = os.popen('wget -q -O foo1.txt http://foo.html') > h.close() What for, if you don't do anything (read/write) with the pipe? That's what os.system is for. [ snip ] > John Hunter Confused, J"o! -- sigfault