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- Subject: Re: Shadow shell error messages when running os.execute/io.popen from Lua
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:10:23 +0200
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Ousmane Roland Yonaba
<roland.yonaba@gmail.com> wrote:
> Although my computer is running Windows, however, I would not want (as
> possible)
> to rely on PowerShell, as it was included in Windows 7, and thus not
> available on previous versions of Windows.
It is the most surprisingly slow shell known to humankind, best
avoided. Even cscript is faster, and more widely supported; good old
cmd.exe is not bad for this job.
Glad you like Penlight - it's definitely got beyond its roots as a set
of "Python-like" libraries ;)
