I know this may sound like I'm stupid, but what should kcsdev be changed to.

Whatever the hostname program returns - the name of the box you are running the query on

The program just prints no.

What does show?
I don't know SCO, but I'm hoping they can spell POSIX - a set of UNIX standards

I'll post, thanks Jim for all of your help it is appreciated.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{

FILE *cmd=popen(" ndstat | grep net0 | awk '{print $3}'", "r");
char tmp[80]={0x0};

while(fgets( tmp, sizeof(tmp), cmd)!=NULL)
{
printf("%s\n", tmp);
}
pclose(cmd);
return 0;
}

I'm going to post a new thread about md5 hashing, in unix (SCO) environment. Hope to see you there