Call external application through Abap WD application

Hello All,
We are trying to call an external application using ABAP. The details are as below
1) SAP server on AIX OS
2) External Apps server: Windows OS
The external apps takes a file located on windows as input and generates a file on windows as output. The external appls is installed on the windows OS.
We are unable to trigger the VC apps from ABAP.( AIX OS).
Appreciate if you can guide and give some examples. Please note that the OS are different.
Questions:
1) How to access windows file system to execute external appls from ABAP ( AIX)
2) Would a RFC be required to be made between ABAP and the windows server where external appls is hosted
3) Any sample code/links is really help ful
We were able to get it working when the applications was hosted on local file system ( desktop) . Two problems are getting the appls executed on remote and different OS accessing windows file system through unix ( AL11 should help here i guess)
Regards
PN

Hi Lekha
I want to start a *.bsp page in a new external window and POST Parameters to this *.bsp page.
So it is not actually showing a bsp in a ABAP WD.
Kind regards
Paul
PS: create_external_window is alway a GET Method and I do not want to show Parameters in the URL.

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