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Mention "Failed to create process" error on Windows in README.md
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pip install coursera-dl
```

### Windows: Failed to create process

In `C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\Scripts`
or wherever Python installed (above is default for Windows)
edit below file in idle: (right click on script name and select 'edit with idle in menu)

```
coursera-dl-script
```

from

```
#!c:\users\<user>\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\python.exe
```

to

```
#"!c:\users\<user>\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\python.exe"
```

(add quotes). This is a known pip bug.

Source: [issue #500][issue500] [StackOverflow][pipinstallerbug]

### SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:504: error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure

This is a known error, please do not report about this error message! The problem is in **YOUR** environment. To fix it, do the following:
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[22]: https://pypi.python.org/
[23]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/coursera-dl
[issue213]: https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/issues/213
[issue500]: https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl/issues/500
[pipinstallerbug]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31808180/installing-pyinstaller-via-pip-leads-to-failed-to-create-process

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What about (for later), splitting this document in more than one, since the sections are starting to get long? Then, we could join everything when appropriate... I think that youtube-dl does something like this (I have to check it).

But, to be honest, I don't know if breaking up the document is worth the trouble... We could create a subdirectory called "docs" and put the other markdown documents there, linked from the main README.md. Is this too crazy?

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Hm, youtube-dl has this giant README.md as we do. I've just added Table of Contents to our README for convenience.

As for splitting... Hm, I don't know. Maybe we can use wiki pages. On the other hand, sometimes it's useful to have everything in one place. It cuts two ways :)

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