Re: lua system interaction on win

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

Jean Claude Morlier wrote:
> This don't work on 9x and freeze the computer, it works fine on 2K.
> readfrom('|dir /b /s *.lua')

Yes, I would have expected it to NOT work on win9x...
Can anybody confirm/deny if this should work on win9x?

> Have you any idea ?
> may be it is win 9x specific
>
> Jean-Claude Morlier
>
> David Burgess wrote:
>
> > Works on 9x/nt/2000/xp as far as i know.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Spernau" <martin@traumwind.de>
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:13 PM
> > Subject: Re: lua system interaction on win
> >
> >
> >
> > > Could you add what flavor of Win your tried this?
> > > Does this work with win9x?
> > >
> > > pS: I've added a note to the Wiki about this:
> > > http://lua-users.org/wiki/PopenOnWin
> > > and linked it from this:
> > > http://lua-users.org/wiki/ShellAccess
> > >
> > > rael_er wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've tried with lcc for Windows (is my favorite C compiler on Win).
> > > >
> > > > You can add POPEN to the #defines on the Compiler->Settings panel.
> > > >
> > > > It worked fine.
> > > >
> > > > Greetings.