problem with file modes

[Scooby]

This is really annoying me, and hope one of u can help me out here.
Bascially, I am saving a file locally through php. This is under a windowsXP|IIS setup. Problem is that all "\n" r saved as strange characters. Something like this

$somestring = "Some text goes here.\nSome more text.\n";
$ftest = fopen("test.txt", "w");
fwrite($ftest, $somestring);

when we open the test.txt file locally, its just a 1 liner, with the newline shown as a wild character. Obviously this works fne under linux machines cause ascii and binary files r treated the same way. What can i fix here so that the newline character will actually appear as a newline character under windows.
thanks

[aaronott]

What are you opening the newly created file in?
Try to open the new file in wordpad.

[Scooby]

The files r opened in notepad, and they r supposed to be in this case.

[id10t]

Try \n\r instead of just \n

Just a wild guess, but I remmember some sample code that used that somewhere in the comments in the docs at php.net

[ereptur]

id10t is correct. Windows requires "\r\n" to correctly translate a newline and carriage return. *nix and MacOS do not have this problem, so be careful when trying to create a file for multiple OS's. You may need to test your clients browser before you can correctly create the file.

[Scooby]

OMG
it worked!!! not "\n\r" but "\r\n"

thanks 🙂