Contributor: HARRY MARX { I wrote a similar little program, to register who are using a particular program on the network. I think you can get the same done using a simple batch file system - since this is only for statistical information. I would use the following batch commands in STUDENT.BAT: LOGIN %1 REGISTER H:\wherever\LOG.REG %1 It assumes your login script makes an enviroment variable called NAME=usersname But used like above it doen't matter. Call STUDENT.BAT with STUDENT studentloginname All that register.exe needs to do is to take it's parameter, add a date and time stamp (GetDate & GetTime) and writeln everything to a text file. Yes, there is no protection again normal, unregistered logins, but then that is not what you asked for? BTW, I edited it a bit in the mailer - there may be a sintax error... Cheers, Harry. {------------------------------------------------------------------------} program Register; { Used to register users of a program. } uses Dos; var F:text; FN,Remark:string; YY,MM,DD,DOW,H,M,S,ss,Retry:word; function D0(i:word):string; var S:string; begin str(I,S); if length(S)=1 then S:='0'+S; D0:=S; end; begin if ParamCount<1 then begin writeln('Use: REGISTER path\filename.REG remark'); writeln(' where path\file.REG is a text file where the user will be logged.'); writeln(' The user must have read/write access to this path.'); writeln(' The remark can be anything, ex.: "logging_in" or "logging_out"'); end else begin FN:=ParamStr(1); if ParamCount>=2 then Remark:=paramstr(2) else Remark:=''; if copy(FN,length(FN)-3,4)<>'.REG' then writeln('Invalid log file: ',FN) else begin assign(F,ParamStr(1)); {$I-} if FSearch(ParamStr(1),'')<>ParamStr(1) then rewrite(F); retry:=255; repeat append(F); dec(retry); until (retry=0) or (IOResult=0); {This is only for if the program tries to register two users at the same time} if IOResult<>0 then begin writeln('Log file not found/accesable.'); halt; end; {$I+} GetDate(YY,MM,DD,DOW); GetTime(H,M,S,ss); writeln(F,D0(YY),'/',D0(MM),'/',D0(DD),', ', D0(H),'h',D0(M),':',D0(S),', ', GetEnv('NAME'),', ',Remark); close(F); end; end; end.