Are there any tricks to reading a GIF or other binary data?

My log shows:

29/07/2005 11:29:09 66.219.95.118 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -1443935312 1 723 [File Action] Read_thumb 29/07/2005 11:29:09 66.219.95.118 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -1443935312 1 723 [Query] <@ASSIGN NAME=thumb VALUE="GIF89a(


Subsequently, I check the length of the file and it is indeed seven bytes long. Yet, I've confirmed the file is complete:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -al /tmp/vcs/*thumb.gif
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1466 Jul 29 11:29 /tmp/vcs/6FB6C1AE0DF8BD7C42E9240D_thumb.gif
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /tmp/vcs/6FB6C1AE0DF8BD7C42E9240D_thumb.gif
GIF89a((������������������������������������������������������������� ��������������������� ....

So it looks like it's choking on some binary data.

thx.

Bill
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