Re: How to detect a MSWindows console in pure Lua

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Lorenzo Donati
<lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it> wrote:
> Sometimes I wish that stock Lua had a bit more support for "system
> dependent" features.

A common wish!

The key thing is to have access to the basic services. For instance,
Windows is glued together with COM, so one can do a lot with LuaCOM -
WMI, shell, etc.  Have Alien around, so you can pull in a few API
functions when needed (Visual Basic had that tradition ;))

steve d.