# Working with external files in Flash
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/working-with-external-files-in-flash/2155
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 16, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/working-with-external-files-in-flash/2155 "2002-05-16T20:54:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/working-with-external-files-in-flash/2155/1 "2002-05-16T20:54:45Z")
Does anyone know how or (preferably) where to find a good tutorial on how to use “BufferedReader” and “PrintWriter” and all that good stuff that reads from and writes to specific files? Except with Flash 5 instead of Javascript?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/working-with-external-files-in-flash/2155/2 "2002-05-17T04:30:03Z")
What the hell are those?
Use PHP, it’s really simple!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/working-with-external-files-in-flash/2155/3 "2002-05-19T13:59:58Z")
They’re java commands.