Will,
your suggestion didn't help, somehow it does place the EOL chars in the file, but Notepad doesn't recognize them as Sergie mentioned.
I tested with :
redirectoutput("uselist.txt",1)
use list
redirectoutput("")
if open (1,"uselist.txt") = 0 endif
while @error = 0
$line = readline(1)
$line ?
loop

that does display them line by line.

Sergie, do you know of any documentation about this weird problem ??
It doesn't really matter for script execution but it is annoying...
Wordpad does recognize them..

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: mvdw ]

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