sorryh, I don't know why it didn't post.... oopsie

it returned
unknown:CRLF unknown:CRLF in place of the 2 @CRLF entries which I was hoping would put Carraige returns

My code looked like this

$wrnmsg = "Canadian text"+@CRLF+@CRLF+"french text"
$messsage = MESSAGEBOX($wrnmsg,"WARNING/AVERTISSEMENT",0,0)