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> 
> Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
> > If > you don't want that, then don't use textmode mounts.
> 
> ...or open the file with O_BINARY.
> 

Mounting binary solves the problem - I wasn't aware of that functionality.  O_BINARY is probably not so portable so I'll steer clear of that.

Cheers for the help.

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