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LuaFileSystem - File System Library for Lua
Copyright 2003 Kepler Project
http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem

Description
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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

Version 1.4.1 [07/May/2008] changes:
        * documentation review
        * fixed Windows compilation issues
        * fixed bug in the Windows tests (patch by Shmuel Zeigerman)
        * fixed bug [#2185] lfs.attributes(filename, 'size') overflow on files > 2 Gb

LuaRocks Installation
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luarocks install luafilesystem

Unix Installation
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To install on Linux/OSX/BSD, please edit the config file and then call

make
make install

The last step may require root privileges.

Windows Installation
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To install on Windows, please copy lfs.dll to your package.cpath directory

Documentation
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Please check the documentation at /doc/us/ for more information.