Format of options file

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi David,

> binmode does still work AFAIK, but a more modern and flexible method
> is to use the crlf I/O layer, which is documented here:
>   https://perldoc.perl.org/PerlIO.html
>
> Note however that an awful lot of perl code just doesn't bother.

Windows stacks the `:crlf' layer by default.  I *think* Richard's trying
to avoid that because he wants his get_iplayer to use POSIX text files
on Linux, as normal, and Windows.

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Cheers, Ralph.
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