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> It works now, as you said. For my understanding, why did it not work
> earlier? Does the read call not 'default' to binary mode? What was at
> work here to prevent read from returning the full length requested.

File I/O defaults to text mode.  Reading from text files will (1)
remove all carriage returns (#13, 0x0d, '\r'), and (2) stop reading at
a Ctrl-Z (#27, 0x1a).