Can I execute an external command or program from main.asc?

Graeme Bull - Jun 29, 2007

The question: Can I execute an external command or program from main.asc?

The answer:

Nope. The best you have for something like this is loadVars to load a web page that may have server side code in it to run a command. Flash Media Server alone on the server side can not run an external program.

Which sucks.. and a lot of people have made requests for this. Maybe we'll see it in future versions.