The line break is different on different OS. On *nix for example the line break is done solely with the line carriage return ( CHR(10) IIRC ). On Windows an additional character, line feed ( CHR(13) IIRC ) is used to constitute the line break. If that second character is missing then notepad will not display the line breaks correctly. But there are editors out there which are smarter and display the line break correct for you ... ( although I would not call Wordpad smart, but that's just IMHO ).
Did you produce the file on a *nix operating system? AFAIK, SKIP writes the line break characters to the file specific the current environment ...
The only solution - if you want the line breaks to be displayed correctly in notepad - is to make sure that both characters that constitute the line break on Windows are in the file.
Regards, RealHeavyDude.