README.macWindowsIssue

In the process of using OMSI, we discovered a bug in Windows that
affected server operation, as follows:

Apparently if one creates a file on a Unix system (at least a Mac), and
then opens it on a windows system, the file may become an odd mixture of
Unix and Windows in terms of end-of-line characters.  This is a known
issue; see

https://forum.unity.com/threads/inconsistent-line-endings.40671/

When this happened with the Questions.txt file, the result was that
students running the client on a Mac (but not Linux or Windows) had
severe problems with distorted line structure.  See the file
Questions.txt.macWinIssue.SAVE in this package; run od -x and note that
some lines have 0x0a0d and some have just 0x0a.

Short-term fix:  Avoid running the server on Windows.  

Longer-term fix:  Have the server check for, and fix this anomaly in the
Windows file.

If you suspect a problem and are running the server on a Unix machine
(Mac, Linux), simply open the file in vi, run

:set ff=unix

and save the file.