Reading DOS Windows in PHP

[Anon]

Anyone know if it's possible to read in a DOS Window in PHP? I can run the dos command, for example, "net view \xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and then store that in a variable easily enough, the only problem is that it's not stored correctly. So how would I take the ouput in a DOS command window and put it into a variable?? Any help to be had?

[mega_hurtz]

I don't know about reading the text from the window, but you can always pipe (>>) any output to a file and then read it from there.

netstat >> c:\Temp\net.txt