Well, hold on there, friend -- no need to get punchy. You might have mentioned that you had this problem in your browser, and not in an editor: this is why it's important to be complete when asking a question, here.

To fix this code-side rather than client-side, you need to instruct your code to use Windows-style line endings. In your code, wherever you see "\n", use "\r\n" instead. If there are a great number of places that you've already used "\n" and you don't want to hunt them down, you could also use a short Perl script to convert them right before viewing. This might look like: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI::Simple;

my $q = new CGI::Simple;
$| = 1;

print $q->header(
  -type    => 'text/plain',
  -expires => '+1m'
);
## the header is for plain text, and the data expires in 1m

## If there's no file parameter, exit with an error message
unless ($q->param('file')) {
  print 'No File was requested';
  exit;
}

open LOG, '<', $q->param('file') or do {
  # exit with error if we can't open the file
  print 'Unable to open file ',$q->param('file'),':',$!;
  exit;
};

while (<LOG>) {
  s{(\r\n)|(\n)}{\r\n}g; ## replace unix with Win line-endings
  print $_;
}

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This is untested

This should be invoked as http://www.domain.com/myname.pl?file=logs.txt (if you named your script 'myname.pl').

The Eightfold Path: 'use warnings;', 'use strict;', 'use diagnostics;', perltidy, CGI or CGI::Simple, try the CPAN first, big modules and small scripts, test first.

In reply to Re^3: log file formatting by radiantmatrix
in thread log file formatting by centrum

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