diff -ur cpio-2.9.old/lib/fcntl_.h cpio-2.9/lib/fcntl_.h
--- cpio-2.9.old/lib/fcntl_.h	2007-06-28 19:18:55.000000000 +0200
+++ cpio-2.9/lib/fcntl_.h	2008-02-05 17:00:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -111,7 +111,10 @@
 # undef O_TEXT
 #endif
 
-#ifndef O_BINARY
+#ifdef O_BINARY
+# define SET_BINARY_MODE(arc) setmode(arc, O_BINARY)
+#else
+# define SET_BINARY_MODE(arc)
 # define O_BINARY 0
 # define O_TEXT 0
 #endif
diff -ur cpio-2.9.old/lib/system.h cpio-2.9/lib/system.h
--- cpio-2.9.old/lib/system.h	2008-02-05 14:03:34.000000000 +0100
+++ cpio-2.9/lib/system.h	2008-02-05 17:00:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -109,9 +109,6 @@
 # define O_TRUNC	32	/* truncate file on open */
 #endif
 
-#ifndef O_BINARY
-# define O_BINARY 0
-#endif
 #ifndef O_DIRECTORY
 # define O_DIRECTORY 0
 #endif
@@ -490,13 +487,11 @@
 #endif
 
 #if MSDOS
-# define SET_BINARY_MODE(arc) setmode(arc, O_BINARY)
 # define ERRNO_IS_EACCES errno == EACCES
 # define mkdir(file, mode) (mkdir) (file)
 # define TTY_NAME "con"
 # define sys_reset_uid_gid()
 #else
-# define SET_BINARY_MODE(arc)
 # define ERRNO_IS_EACCES 0
 # define TTY_NAME "/dev/tty"
 # define sys_reset_uid_gid() \
diff -ur cpio-2.9.old/src/main.c cpio-2.9/src/main.c
--- cpio-2.9.old/src/main.c	2007-06-28 12:46:41.000000000 +0200
+++ cpio-2.9/src/main.c	2008-02-05 17:03:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -792,6 +792,8 @@
   
   initialize_buffers ();
 
+  SET_BINARY_MODE (1);
+
   (*copy_function) ();
 
   if (archive_des >= 0 && rmtclose (archive_des) == -1)