Format of options file

[RS]

On 03/03/18 10:53, I wrote:
> Is the format of the options file different in Windows and Linux?  
...
> The criterion seems to be that options with a numeric or boolean value 
> like --subtitles or --expiry work.
> 
> Options with a string value like --tvmode, --radiomode or 
> --ffmpegloglevel don't.

Looking at the files with xxd, the lines in the Windows file end with 
CRLF (hex 0D0A).  In file copied to Linux with re-entering of some of 
the options with --prefs-add there is a mixture of lines ending CRLF and 
LF, even though the lines have been shuffled by --prefs-add.  There does 
not seem to be any correlation between the errors and the presence of CR 
characters.

I have not yet looked at the code to see how the options file is parsed. 
  What is puzzling is that the options display correctly with --prefs-show.

The Windows download_history file seems to work correctly.  I hope I 
don't need to edit it.