Re: How do I change Environment variables

[Hans Hagen <pragma@...>]

RJP Computing wrote:
> On 1/27/07, Rob Kendrick <lua-l@nun.org.uk> wrote:
> > You can't.  At least not directly.  Lua's written in ANSI C, and
> > therefor does not have a setenv() to go along with getenv()/main()'s
> > third parameter.
>
> Are there any other builds of Lua that have this functionality built
> in. Like LuaX, ect...
among a few other extensions, the lua interpreter built into luatex (experimantal extension of tex) has a setenv ; the code is by implemented by Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>) so he knows the details (i tested it on windows and it works ok). 

Hans 

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