A bug in preferences handling (in 2.83)

[dinkypumpkin]

On 24/07/2013 17:44, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
> dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think perl is applying unix-style character processing to the command-line
> it sees after that's been passed to it by Windows.   That's also the

You're right, I was wrong.  I should have said it only applied to 
get_iplayer (and Perl) command line processing.

> But I think there might be some point in documenting somewhere that commands
> written at the Windows command prompt have first to get through Windows'
> shell processing (with one set of rules) and will then be interpreted by
> perl with an alien set of rules.

There is a big wide wiki over at GitHub awaiting your contribution.