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RE: Run external bat file and retrieve a value it echos to the console

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:24:59 GMT

You can start a .bat file, yep! Like this:

BFS.Application.Start("D:\\temp\\test.bat", "");

RE: Run external bat file and retrieve a value it echos to the console

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:21:50 GMT

So can I assume that DF can't launch an external progrm or that it can't retrieve the value echo'd to the console?

I can change the .bat file to write to a file but I still need to be able to launch the .bat file to begin with.

I'll also look into doing this from native C# code. That doesn't look too difficult.

RE: Run external bat file and retrieve a value it echos to the console

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:38:47 GMT

There isn't a way to do that unfortunately. If your bat file can write to a text file, you could write a value there and then read it into the script like this:

string text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("stuff.txt");

Hope that helps!

Run external bat file and retrieve a value it echos to the console

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:57:20 GMT

From a scripted function I need to run an external bat file that will return a echo'd value.