(and how antiquated is the term "carriage")

I'm trying to automate the creation of a shell script that will be run under
linux from excel VBA. The "dos" style of carriage control screws up proper
interpretation of the file on the linux system. It is easy enough to fix the
file before running it with sed or vim but I would like to be able to create
it correctly in the first place.

I tried opening the file as binary but and print strings like this:
print #fid "string" & chr(10)

I end up with a empty file!

If I open the file up as output I do create a file but I get the <rc<lf
problem.

I'm sure this is simple and I'm missing something that will appear obvious
in hindsight, but right now I am stuck. Any help would be appreciated.