Okay, this has gottem me really far along my way.
Now I have some further questions concerning 'piping'
The sample code 'opens' the STDOUT of the external process as _INPUT
a) how would I (also) connect STDERR as a filehandle to read from?
b) how do I write to the STDIN of the above external process?
h=readfrom("|command -arg")
writeto(h) -- does this connect to STDIN of above pipe?
What I'm basically after is controlling another commandline tool
(ispell, curl etc) from within a lua-script. It would also be important
to catch STDERR, of course.
Thanks for all the help already, -Martin David Burgess wrote:
On VC6, Lua 4.0.1 from the project menu Goto - "Project/Settings" Tab - "C/C++" Select "All configurations" Edit field - "Preprocessor definitions" and paste at the end of the existing string (which should already have something like "WIN32,_CONSOLE,_MBCS") POPEN,popen=_popen,pclose=_pcloseDavid, could you please elaborate on how you did this? I'm using VC6,wherewould I change the code? Thanks again, Martin