Re: Creating a directory in a lua script

[Frank Küster <frank@...>]

"Alex Queiroz" <asandroq@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> On 6/25/07, Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
>>
>> I need to create a temporary directory in a lua script, but I couldn't
>> find any information on how to do that.  Since this is supposed to be a
>> standalone script, I cannot use a function from the C-library, I guess.
>>
>> Can someone give me a pointer?
>>
>
>     The Lua standard library only cover features present in ANSI C
> and, alas, creating a directory is not one of them. You could use
> something like LuaFileSystem.

Thanks (also to Jan) - and LuaFileSystem is even integrated into luatex,
which I use as the lua interpreter.

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
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