Format of options file

[RS]

On 03/03/18 11:09, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
>> ') - using defaultalue for --ffmpeg-loglevel ('info
>>
>> If I enter the options again with --prefs-add they work correctly, so
>> it is no big deal.  Any ideas what is happening?
> 
> That line above seems to be overprinting the «')» at the start of the
> line suggesting there's an ASCII CR, carriage return, after the `info'
> as if a Unix system was reading a POSIX text file of lines ending in
> ASCII LF, linefeed, but being fed a DOS one with CR LF pairs.
> 
> `od -c foo' will show them, and they can be removed with `sed -i
> 's/\r$//' foo'.
> 

Thanks, Ralph.  That does indeed seem to be the problem.  Thanks also 
for the command to remove the unwanted CR characters.  That seems to 
have cleared everything up.

Best wishes
Richard