Until I installed windows XP SP2 I was able to create a carriage return line feed as follows: 
print FH "This is  a line\r\n";

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I also tried 
my $crlf="\015\012";
print FH "This is a line",$crlf;

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But when I open this up in Crimson Editor it looks like the \n is not getting interpreted as a line feed. At least there are unknown characters at the end of each line. Does anyone know what happeded in Windows XP SP2 that could have caused this. I found the following reference to a telnet bug that was supposedly addressed in SP2 Here. Is this the culprit? Any ideas on how to resolve this issue?

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In reply to CRLF and Windows XP SP2 by slloyd

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