Re: loading lua scripts relative to an app's path

["Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@...>]

Well, there could be a lua library that binds to the OS specific
method for getting this info for instance.  Does such a thing exist?
I'm looking for solutions on Windows, OSX, and Linux (Fedora Core 4).

wes

On 10/7/06, Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> wrote:
> In message <1079b050610070337w25e55dder4a3596e548327c6c@mail.gmail.com>
> you wrote:
>
> > So that works for windows, but is there a POSIX or another OS agnostic
> > method for doing this?
>
> I do not see how there can be. It is entirely up to the OS to provide
> information to an application about its past history, i.e. where in
> a filing system it has been fetched from. It might have been fetched
> from nowhere if it is stored in ROM. To go to an extreme example, what
> about devices that do not support filing systems?
>
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