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

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.