txt looks normal on Linux but weird on Windows. WHY?

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Alex
Alex on 24 Jun 2013
Commented: Stephen23 on 5 Mar 2022
I created txt. file using fopen, fwrite and fclose running MATLAB on Linux. However, the lines are mixed up when opening the file on Windows. Is there any work around? I need to be able to work with the txt. file on both WIndows and Linux.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 24 Jun 2013
On the Linux side, each place that you currently write out '\n', change it to '\r\n'. That is, instead of char(10) use char([13 10])

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Jan
Jan on 24 Jun 2013
What does "opening the file in Windows" exactly mean? While all editors I know, even vi, XEmacs on Windows, MS Word Alpha on my old MacOS-8 computer and the preview on LCD of the fancy Ricoh printer handle Linux/Windows linebreaks correctly, Window's Notepad fails. If you mean this limitations of Notepad, I share your curiosity: Why does Microsoft ships such a bad program with Windows?
Btw. I did not test this in Windows8 yet.

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