Passing input text to a variable

[FONT=&quot]I’m trying to create a .swf file that allows for a user to input text which will then edit an external .as file. Here’s the hard part: this is all running locally, not communicating with a server, so it can’t be PHP. How can I tell my swf file to send its input text field (and to where), and how do I tell the as file to receive the info?[/FONT]