diff -ur minicom-2.7.old/src/script.c minicom-2.7/src/script.c
--- minicom-2.7.old/src/script.c	2013-10-29 07:07:42.000000000 -0400
+++ minicom-2.7/src/script.c	2017-03-01 16:21:54.000000000 -0500
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@
         continue;
       }
       if (*w == '\n')
-        fputs(newline, fp);
+        fputc('\n', fp);
       else if (*w == NULL_CHARACTER)
         fputc('\0', fp);
       else