Re: Creating a directory in a lua script

[David Kastrup <dak@...>]

Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> writes:

> Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
>> You can try
>> 	os.execute("mkdir xxx")
>> but it'll be hard to get reliable status back.
>
> Hm, I'm surprised to find that this even works on Windows (at least on
> XP); I could check whether the directory exists in the next step.  Any
> idea about older Windowsen?

mkdir has been a system command since MSDOS 2.0 or so (1.0 not having
directories IIRC).

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David Kastrup