Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!decwrl!shelby!csli!francis From: francis@csli.Stanford.EDU (Dave Francis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Carriage Returns in ascii files Message-ID: <14711@csli.Stanford.EDU> Date: 30 Jul 90 00:00:28 GMT Sender: francis@csli.Stanford.EDU (Dave Francis) Reply-To: francis@csli.stanford.edu (Dave Francis) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 15 I am trying to append a carriage return to a line of text that I am outputting to a simple ascii file using FSWrite on C strings. To accomplish this I figured len = 1L; err = FSWrite(refNum, &len, "\n"); would work. But instead I get unrecognizable characters (those rectangles) instead of carriage returns when I look at the file with TeachText. How do I get a real carriage return appended? Thanks, Dave Francis P.S. I am using Think C 4.0.2