Can't Run .lua Script From Within C Program

["Shawn LeBlanc" <wrlddomprod@...>]

Greetings!

I'm not sure if anyone reads this group anymore, but here
goes:

I'm trying to run .lua scripts from within a c Win32 console
application. The only things I'm doing within the C app is 
calling:

lua_open();
lua_dofile("hello.lua"); //hello.lua being from the examples
lua_close();

and the script only has this line:

write("hello world, from Lua!\n")

But it doesn't work. The lua_dofile() returns 1 and I get the
message "call expression not a function". What I'm doing is
pretty basic, and to me logical, but it's not working.

Any suggestions?

with milk and cookies,
Shawn