How can you run an executable from AS2 code without using fscommand() or a projector?

[Howitzer21]

Just using some short .asc files made out of Notepad for some back-end server stuff, but without using fscommand() or projectors, how can you call an executable? There's a C++ program that I want to run from more-or-less the same directory as the .asc files, which handles some logging, and I need to be able to pass it arguments when telling it to run.

Please note that I have Googled this with no useful results and that I'm on an assignment that necessitates this question. Also I'm open to the possibility that it can't be done.

Thanks!

[kglad]

where are the executables (server, user computer, elsewhere) and where's the swf (server, user computer, elsewhere)?

[Howitzer21]

The swf is on a different server and using AS3.  The little bit of AS2 back-end stuff is on a few different servers that the swf is hooking up to for streaming video and audio.  The executable would be on the AS2 servers.

[kglad]

use loadvars to execute a local (to the swf's server) server-side program that calls your cross-domain server-side program.

[Howitzer21]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure I follow.