Thanks, Richard..
1. I was trying to move away from the temp-file issue, which is what I was using with standard "shell" commands.
2. The short duration of the commands - "ping -n 1 host" and "nslookup host" flash so quickly that this isn't practical, unless your DNS is down (which is a bigger issue anyway)
3. I do all my debugging in Kix32 - set a debug flag and monitor the code progress. Never saw the popup then. One issue, though, is that use of MessageBox tends to bring the console above the KF main window, since MessageBox is associated with Kix and not KF process, I suppose.
Too bad WSH can't run as a minimized window, or even on the hidden desktop.
Glenn
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