I an trying to read a binary opened in random mode with a specified
file length. The binary data may contain the following HEX string "03
0A FE 2A..." starting in position 100
When I display position 100 I get x"03", 101 x"0A", 102 x"0D", 103
x"FE", etc...
The result is that the record layout is increased by one character, so
nothing aligns correctly.

I am using MS Access 2000 (9.0.3821 SR1).
This problem only happens on Windows 2000 Server SP 4, it doesn't
occur on Windows XP 2002 SP 1 or Windows 2000 Professional SP 4.

Is this an environment setting?
Why is it inserting CR/LF pairs in the wrong order, normally x"0D0A",
not that it matters?

Is it a large file? Is there any file description.
In any case, I can perhaps help you to convert you HEX file with a tool I
have on my computer.

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The files are quite large and contain financial data. The files
contain normal ASCII based reocrds, i.e. delimited by CR/LF pairs, but
each record contains binary strings (position 100 to 350) in the
middle which cannot be converted, because it will corrupt the binary
data.