From: Mikevl Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 02:42 > I am trying to create a text file that has several lines which > can be viewed > in Windows notepad. > > at the moment if I use echo or printf "hi there\nnext line" > the poutut in notepad looks like "hi there[]next line" but I > cannot produce > a new line. Wordpad gets it right but that is not the issue as a piece of > Windows software must read the text file and fails so far. > Hi Mike: Use unix2dos to convert the file to a DOS text file. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list