Re: os.execute and the dreaded Windows console

[Joshua Jensen <jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Taylor Venable
Date: 9/9/2008 2:04 PM
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 06:03:13PM -0500, Fabio Mascarenhas wrote:
>   
> Thanks for the pointers and advice everybody.  Ultimately I ended up
> following this MSDN article, since I needed to implement io.popen like
> this as well.  Works like a charm.
>   
There has been a number of solutions for this posted over the years, 
too.  The ones I currently use are a patched version of lua-ex 
(http://lua-users.org/wiki/ExtensionProposal) found at 
svn://svn.luaplus.org/LuaPlus/work51/Src/Modules/lua-ex (where I've 
undoubtedly broken the Linux version) and 
svn://svn.luaplus.org/LuaPlus/work51/Src/LuaPlus/popen.c, which replaces 
the system() call.  popen.c is combined from some sources published here 
and some of my own stuff (which is also in my older module at 
svn://svn.luaplus.org/LuaPlus/work51/Src/Modules/pipe that I don't use 
anymore... replaced it with lua-ex).

Josh