Thread: text files & notepad problem

Hi folks,
I seem to be having a problem with text files and notepad that I never seen before. A text file

I create with a C program has suddenly decided not to recognise any "\n" charcters like before, so that

when opened (Notepad as default) the whitespace character box appears...where the new line should be.

A sample line of code (*fp is file pointer)

Code:

int Index = 0;

for(Index = 0; Index < 10; Index++)
	fprintf(fp,"This is line : \n", Index);

Result on win 2000 pro (work) it works okay
This is line : 0
This is line : 1
This is line : 2...ect.

Whilst on win 98 SE at home is like this..

This is line : 0 This is line : 1 This is line : 2 This is line : 3 This is line : 4 This is line : 5...ect

only with the white space characters [box] in between each number and 'This'.

Has anyone ever seen this before, is there a simple fix...I have written many programs which produce

text files, this is the first time I have had this problem.

Bigtamscot.

Did you open the stream in binary mode? If so, simple Windows based apps like Notepad will have trouble, as they expect CRLF as end of line markers, not just LF (\n).

it's always something simple and yet it will trip you up and cause hours of headache trying to figure out what was wrong. I was convinced it was something to do with notepad. The other files i am working on in this program are binary files...so I opened the text file as binary...Thanks Hammer...live and learn...

Tam.