because the test file, msg_26.txt which has \r\n line endings, was
getting munged by cvs, which knows to do line ending conversions for
text files.  But we want \r\n to be preserved on all platforms, so we
cvs admin'd the file to be -kb (binary), which means we have to open
the file in binary mode to preserve these line ends.  Hopefully this
will be the end of the thrashing on this issue (but probably not).

Test passes on *nix now, and Tim confirms it passes on Windows.  We'll
leave it to Jack to test MacOS.