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+Overview
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+LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the underlying directory structure and file attributes. LuaFileSystem is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1
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+Status
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+Current version is 1.2.1. It was developed for Lua 5.1.
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+Download
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+LuaFileSystem source can be downloaded from its Lua Forge page. If you are using LuaBinaries 5.1.2 a Windows binary version of LuaFileSystem can be found at the same LuaForge page.
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+History
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+
+Version 1.2.1 [08/May/2007]
+* compatible only with Lua 5.1 (Lua 5.0 support was dropped)
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+Version 1.2 [15/Mar/2006]
+* added optional argument to lfs.attributes
+* added function lfs.rmdir
+* bug correction on lfs.dir
+
+Version 1.1 [30/May/2005]
+* added function lfs.touch.
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+Version 1.0 [21/Jan/2005]
+Version 1.0 Beta [10/Nov/2004]
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+Credits
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+LuaFileSystem was designed by Roberto Ierusalimschy, André Carregal and Tomás Guisasola as part of the Kepler Project, which holds its copyright.
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+Contact us
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+For more information please contact us on (info @ keplerproject.org). Comments are welcome!
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+You can also reach other Kepler developers and users on the Kepler Project mailing list.
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