If I had a dos compressor like pkzip which I use to do compression. But it show the display out in the dos prompt under win95. Althought I can direct the output to nul by using >NUL. How can I capture any dos program output from dos prompt to prevent it from display on screen besides setting the option of mimimize mode and use it result to display in my own application using vfp 5. Any help or suggestion is very much appreciated. Thank you very much.