How to Add Carriage Returns to a File Created By UTL_FILE on Unix and Read on Windows? (Doc ID 747819.1)

UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE terminates a line of text with a platform-specific line terminator character or characters.  On Unix this is Line Feed (LF).  On Windows this is LF and Carriage Return (CR).

If your file is created on Unix and you need to read it on Windows you will need to re-format the file to include CR.

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