Carriage Return in Oracle

I'm writing a to file and need to add a Carriage Return/New Line after every line. I've tried CHR(10) and CHR(13) and when opened in a Windows environment they both display an unrecognised character.
Has anyone come across a similar problem or know what I'm doing wrong with this?
Thanks
Jay

hello
you need append both characters to the end of the line chr(13)||chr(10) not chr(10)||chr(13). 13 is carriage return, 10 is line feed and they are both needed on windows.
hth

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