RE: [Flightgear-users] setting options & acceleration ?'s

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

Mally writes:
>
>> system.fgfsrc is parsed fgfs/Main/options.cxx down around line #970.
>>
>The problem is due to the text file system.fgfsrc being opened in binary
>mode, so the stream library functions cannot perform the required text-mode
>translations which automatically cater for system-specific differences in
>text file formats.

I wish it were so simple :-(
eg  Some Win32 systems have 'binary mounted drives'

>#if defined( WIN32 )
> if ( line[line.length()-1] == '\r' )
>  line.resize(line.length()-1);
>#endif

!!!!   I like this,  "why didn't I think of it months ago" - DOH :-))

Cheers

Norman