Re: No os.copy or lfs.copy?

[Michal Kolodziejczyk <miko@...>]

Geoff Leyland wrote:
> Thanks Gary,
>
> I hadn't really thought of that.  I'm copying a "read-only" data file to 
> a tmpname before I muck with it so I was thinking in shell operations.
>
> If read/write might be slow, then os.execute's fine.  The data might be 
> tens or low hundreds of MB.

You could also use coroutines:
http://www.lua.org/pil/9.2.html

Regards,
miko