in reply to Formating text while download

The issue may be that you are looking at a Unix file on an MS system, they differ in their understanding of what constitutes a line break. You could modify your output to be suitable for reading on an MS system as follows 
print "$fan : $fan \r\n\t";

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Re^2: Formating text while download
by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 30, 2009 at 07:24 UTC
    Or if you don't want to remember to write a \r next to an \n everywhere, you can apply the :crlf IO layer: 
    binmode STDOUT, ':crlf';
print "$fan: $fan \n\t";

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