# Running notepad.exe
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/running-notepad-exe/204674
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 22, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/running-notepad-exe/204674 "2006-10-22T11:41:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@buya7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/buya7)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/running-notepad-exe/204674/1 "2006-10-22T11:41:08Z")
How would I make a simple snippet of actionscript that runs notepad.exe? If you want, you can make a button or something for an example.
thanks,
buya
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### Author:  [@buya7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/buya7)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/running-notepad-exe/204674/2 "2006-10-23T20:30:46Z")
No. The .swf would run notepad.exe on the hosting computer, not the user’s.
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### Author:  [@buya7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/buya7)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/running-notepad-exe/204674/3 "2006-10-23T20:30:47Z")
No. The .swf would run notepad.exe on the hosting computer, not the user’s.
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/running-notepad-exe/204674/4 "2006-10-23T21:16:06Z")
In that case, that sounds somewhat more feasible. Then, Flash would just be calling a server-side script and that script would run Notepad.
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### Author:  [@buya7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/buya7)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/running-notepad-exe/204674/5 "2006-10-24T18:46:17Z")
So how would flash call a server side script written in JavaScript or Perl?
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### Author:  [@buya7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/buya7)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/running-notepad-exe/204674/6 "2006-10-25T18:14:05Z")
is there some special ationscript command?