Re: How to detect a MSWindows console in pure Lua

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 11/11/2010 23.27, Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> > Not very clean, but... there is a slash-backslash difference in the last
> > part of the path (forward slashes cannot be used when a Windows console
> > is involved).
>
> Sorry, but that's generally not true.

You're right, of course; I wrote too hastily.
In any case, assuming Lorenzo has control over the command lines used to 
launch the Lua interpreter, he could use the presence of a forward slash 
to differentiate between the two cases. Definitely not a clean solution, 
but a possible workaround.

--
  Enrico