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What is happening is that you are writing just a single ASCII LF 
character in the file, since the '\n' escape sequence indicates the LF 
character.

Your problem is due to the fact that different operating systems 
handle end of lines differently.  In general, they embed a character 
(or characters) to indicate the end of line, but the character is 
different on different platforms:

    Unix:           LF
    Dos/Windows:    CR + LF
    Macintosh:      CR

Most programs will handle alternate forms of line enders, but as 
usual, Microsoft is both out of step and obstinate.  They insist on 
using the 2 character CR/LF combination as a line ender (do they think 
we are still using typewriters?), and their programs, such as Notepad, 
refuse to recognize the single LF (or CR) variant.  (Do they think 
that the LF character means draw a box?)

Rather than use the '\n' character explicitly, you should either use 
the BufferedWriter newLine() method, or one of the various println or 
writeln methods in the java.io package, or write the value of the 
system property "line.separator".

-- 
Regards,

John P. McGrath
<mcgrath@enter.net>
<jpm@nscs.fast.net>



Matt Butler <butler@cyberramp.net> wrote:

> I am having an problem with writing new lines to a file. I have tried
> several different things, but to give you an idea here is the latest code I
> tried:
> 
>       String s = new String("test\n");
>       char[] buf = new char[s.length()];
>       s.getChars(0,s.length(),buf,0);
>       Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(new
> FileOutputStream("D:\\WWW\\Html\\User3.rpt"));
>       out.write(buf,0,s.length());
>       out.flush();
> 
> What is happening is that the \n is coming out as an unprintable character
> rather than a newline. It works fine if sent to system.out rather than a
> file.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Matt