Posted by Chuck Anderson on 11/10/06 19:31

Ike wrote:
> "Chuck Anderson" <websiteaddress@seemy.sig> wrote in message
> news:i8ydnWT7HoUvIc7YnZ2dnUVZ_vednZ2d@comcast.com...
>
>> I had to open the Services window (Run - services.msc) - select Apache -
>> click on Properties - go to the Log On tab and then check "allow service to
>> interact with the desktop." (I've been flamed for admitting to doing that,
>> too. ?)
>>
>
> Any idea why you got flamed for that? I'm just wondering if/what kind of
> security risk this would have created. Thanks, Ike
>
>
>
No security risk, I was just told that it was "bad form" (to put it
mildly) to run a GUI app from a web request. And the flamers were
confused about how I was using the Php script.

If all you want to do is zip a file, I suggest you try 7-zip (unless you
have the command line version of WinZip).

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