Problem reading/writing files

[smeenehan at hmc.edu]

Ok, now I'm very confused, even though I just solved my problem. I
copied the entire contents of the original file (evil2.gfx) from my hex
editor and pasted it into a text file. When I read from *this* file
using my original code, everything worked fine. When I read the 21st
byte, it came up as the correct \x00. Why this didn't work in trying to
read from the original file, I don't know, since the hex values should
be the same, but oh well...