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Some of the standard Haskell libraries behave slightly differently on Windows.
On Windows, the '^Z' character is interpreted as an end-of-file character, so if you read a file containing this character the file will appear to end just before it. To avoid this, use IOExts.openFileEx to open a file in binary (untranslated) mode or change an already opened file handle into binary mode using IOExts.hSetBinaryMode. The IOExts module is part of the lang package.