Win32 os.popen and os.execute substitutes

["Steve Donovan" <sjdonova@...>]

Hi all,

I've found the following patch to be very useful in Win32 programs
with embedded Lua;  it replaces os.execute with a version that
doesn't create the dreaded black box, and provides a version
of os.popen that works in GUI programs (_popen _only_ works
in console apps!)  About 100 extra lines.

http://home.mweb.co.za/sd/sdonovan/popen.zip 

It's been tested in SciTE and works very nicely.

At least this is a genuinely new topic ;)

steve d.


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