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

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.

[Titus Edelhofer]

What do you mean by mixed up? Wrong order? Or no line breaks?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

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])

Answer 2

[Jan]

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.

[Stephen23]

Finally fixed with Windows10 in 2018: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-notepad/