Format of options file

[Bernard Peek]

On 03/03/18 17:33, James Scholes wrote:
> RS wrote:
>> The Windows download_history file seems to work correctly.  I hope I 
>> don't need to edit it.
>
> You've probably edited your options file by hand in the past, 
> resulting in a mixture of weird line endings from a Windows editor, 
> and appropriate ones when get_iplayer itself has updated it.  That's 
> just my guess after going through exactly the same thing recently.  
> I'd bet you probably don't go editing your download_history file by 
> hand very often so it's most likely fine.

For what it's worth I noticed that under Windows the Wordpad program 
seems to understand UNIX style terminations and retains them.


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Bernard Peek

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