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instead of

you should of course insert the path names as explained above.


Yeah, the BOM is indeed a problem, you should open the file in Notepad++ and store the file without BOM . that's inserting weird characters at the start of the file without any valid reason and the tools of course do use it (do not ignore it)

(07-05-2020, 06:47 PM)philsmd Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, the BOM is indeed a problem, you should open the file in Notepad++ and store the file without BOM . that's inserting weird characters at the start of the file without any valid reason and the tools of course do use it (do not ignore it)

Removing the BOM did the trick. Thanks, mate. You're a life saver.