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John Zukowski

Basic security permissions don't permit this but, you can create an ActiveXObject FileSystemObject in IE to read, write, or append.

fs = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
a = fs.OpenTextFile("c:	estfile.txt", 1, false);

For additional information on OpenTextFile, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/jsmthopentextfile.asp. Users will be warned when this task is attempted.