As I understand, this is normal. Without the carriage return at the end, you
do not end up with the null that indicates EOS.

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Gregory A. Beamer
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Does the StreamWriter's NewLine property do what you want?

The above code doesn't write a carriage return. Try running the
following program (containing your code, modified for my directory
structure):

using System;
using System.IO;

class Test
{
   static void Main()
   {
       string file = @"c:\test\text.txt";
       FileStream fs = new FileStream(file,
                           FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write,
                           FileShare.None);
       StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs);
       sw.Write("BINARY PLEASE");
       sw.Flush();
       sw.Close();
   }
}

The file length afterwards is 13 bytes, which doesn't leave any room
for carriage returns, if you count the characters in the string...