Re: Newline in file using fputs

Dear All (and B.A.T.Svensson in particular) I agree. It should not be necessary with a proper language. Could it be that I need to use a different header as opposed to: header("Content-type: Application/octet-stream"); In anycase doing TrimRight() and adding on a "\n" did not work! Henry "B.A.T. Svensson" <B.A.T.Svensson@lumc.nl> wrote in message news:000601c1fce1$3e9fb660$ce411eac@5-hkg-01-1234.lumc.nl... > > Congratulations on discovering the difference between windows and linux > > carriage returns. :) There are 2 types of new-line character, \r (carriage > > return, ie move the cursor back the the left hand side of the screen) and \n > > (new line, strictly interpreted as "move cursor down one line, but not > > along"). Linux quite happily accepts \n as, "new line and return cursor to > > left home" however windows needs both, \n\r (or vice versa, I'm not sure > > which). Linux fortunately will accept \n\r as a single return, so feel free to > > always put \n\r > > A proper language should interpret \n into the correct CR (new line) code at the > target platform. hence: don't fiddle around with \r or \f and that shit. Just do > a TrimRight() and add on a "\n" (new line) at the end - should be enough... > > By the way. Windows uses 0x0D0A as CR, eg char(13) and char(10), in that order.