README
1LuaFileSystem - File System Library for Lua
2Copyright 2003 Kepler Project
3http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem
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5Description
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7LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions
8related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution.
9
10LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the underlying directory structure and file attributes.
11LuaFileSystem is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1
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13LuaRocks Installation
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15luarocks install luafilesystem
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18Documentation
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20Please check the documentation at doc/us/ for more information.
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22History
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24
25Version 1.5.0 [20/Oct/2009]
26 * added explicit next and close methods to second return value of lfs.dir (the directory object), for explicit iteration or explicit closing.
27 * added directory locking via lfs.lock_dir function (see the manual).
28
29Version 1.4.2 [03/Feb/2009]
30
31 * fixed bug [#13198] lfs.attributes(filename, 'size') overflow on files > 2 Gb again (bug report and patch by KUBO Takehiro).
32 * fixed bug [#39794] Compile error on Solaris 10 (bug report and patch by Aaron B).
33 * fixed compilation problems with Borland C.
34
35Version 1.4.1 [07/May/2008]
36
37 * documentation review
38 * fixed Windows compilation issues
39 * fixed bug in the Windows tests (patch by Shmuel Zeigerman)
40 * fixed bug [#2185] lfs.attributes(filename, 'size') overflow on files > 2 Gb
41
42Version 1.4.0 [13/Feb/2008]
43
44 * added function lfs.setmode (works only in Windows systems).
45 * lfs.attributes raises an error if attribute does not exist
46
47Version 1.3.0 [26/Oct/2007]
48
49 * added function lfs.symlinkattributes (works only in non Windows systems).
50
51Version 1.2.1 [08/May/2007]
52
53 * compatible only with Lua 5.1 (Lua 5.0 support was dropped)
54
55Version 1.2 [15/Mar/2006]
56
57 * added optional argument to lfs.attributes
58 * added function lfs.rmdir
59 * bug correction on lfs.dir
60
61Version 1.1 [30/May/2005]
62
63 * added function lfs.touch.
64
65Version 1.0 [21/Jan/2005]
66Version 1.0 Beta [10/Nov/2004]
67