Format of options file

[RS]

On 04/03/18 00:24, I wrote:
> 
> If download_history can use 0x0A as a line terminator in both Linux and 
> Windows I can't see why the options file should not also.  The options 
> file is internal to get_iplayer.  Users do not need to edit it directly.
> 
I would add that now Linux fully supports NTFS it is not unreasonable to 
want to share data between Windows and Linux versions of programs and to 
go backwards and forwards between whatever happens to be convenient at 
the moment.  Thunderbird, Libre Office, Softmaker Teamviewer and 
browsers all make it possible, as long as you don't try to do it on the 
Windows c: drive.

I am writing this with Thunderbird sharing its message store between 
Windows 10 and ubuntu 16.04.  All I needed to do to set it up was to run 
thunderbird -p
to tell it where to store the messages.

Best wishes
Richard