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function binaryout {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Workaround for PowerShell processing the output of all external programs as strings
    
    .DESCRIPTION
        PowerShell treats any output from an external program as string which should be
        split whenever it sees LF or CR LF. As a workround this calls the program with
        Start-Process and redirects standard output to a file - on completion the file
        is read and sent as a bytestream to the next process.