Not to rain on your parade, but I might point out that the script from yours truly actually re-reads the EM after writing to check it was written properly. So maybe don’t discard it too quickly 
Aside from that, cool Iceman. And useful too, because good luck doing LF stuff in LUA with the client.
And yeah, get yourself a Linux box. It’s just a matter of installing VirtualBox and Linux Mint or Ubuntu or something. 2 hours tops and then you’re not stuck with Windows no more.