Format of options file

[Nick Payne]

On 4/03/2018 9:54 AM, Bernard Peek wrote:
>
> 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.
The free Notepad++ editor does also. In fact, you can set in the program
preferences whether you want line endings to be formatted as the Windows
CRLF, Unix LF, or Mac CR.

Nick