>Legal issues... I didn't read that far in that thread.
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>What are the legal issues? (Yes, I'll go back to look <bg>)
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>I am using the shell object that is part of the operating system. What could be illegal about that???
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>I often use the shell object to execute other programs etc. Does this affect this use of it?
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>Thanks for your help so far. When I have a subroutine that seems to work reliably, still testing it, I will post the code with explanations.
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>Thanks again,
>Mike

Michael,

I'm not sure myself, why the question of legality was brought up in that thread, but it was and my advice to you would be to carefully read every message in the referenced thread + the thread which deals with legality (it was referenced there).

Then you can make the decision by yourself.