Thanks a ton! You do know about http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-os.execute though? (yours is more fully featured though, so I very much agree with it still). I did look at it, yes. But it does not allow communication and I need that. I plan to use it to (try to) implement a mapper usi...

Here is the patch.

Hi, I write a spawn function for mudlet. I tried to add the diff but whatever extension I chose, I get an error. Tell me where I can put it, if you are interested. The idea is to be able to spawn an external process from a script and to be able to communicate with it. Here is an example script: catP...