38 posts
Earth
Posted 09 April 2012 - 08:20 PM
Since i want to send a program from a computer to another computer without sending each line of the program individually over Rednet.
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[Lua][Question] Is it possible to send whole files to another computer?
Started by Backplague, 09 April 2012 - 06:20 PM
1604 posts
Posted 09 April 2012 - 09:04 PM
You can use readAll() to read the text from the file and then send it:
function sendFile(id, path)
local file = fs.open(path, "r")
if file then
local sText = file.readAll()
file.close()
rednet.send(id, sText)
end
end
378 posts
In the TARDIS
Posted 09 April 2012 - 10:54 PM
and then you have to write it on the receiving computer again like this:
function receiveWrite(path)
local file = fs.open(path, "w")
if file then
file.close()
print("File exists. Writing to "..path.."2")
file = fs.open(path.."2", "w")
end
id, filetext = rednet.receive()
file:write(filetext)
file.close()
end