set binary mode for some file handling and it might work better on some

cygwin installations (using DOS-style files somehow?)

tests/getpart.pm

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ sub loadtest {
     undef @xml;
     open(XML, "<$file") ||
         return 1; # failure!
+    binmode XML; # for crapage systems, use binary
     while(<XML>) {
         push @xml, $_;
     }

tests/runtests.pl

@@ -637,7 +637,8 @@ sub singletest {
         subVariables \$fileContent;
 #        print "DEBUG: writing file " . $filename . "\n";
         open OUTFILE, ">$filename";
-        print OUTFILE   $fileContent;
+        binmode OUTFILE; # for crapage systems, use binary       
+        print OUTFILE $fileContent;
         close OUTFILE;
     }