Data File is binary file with embedded newline characters "\n".

This sounds a little bit bad. If your data is really binary, then it is quite likely that some of the bytes will by accident have the value of new line characters in your system. How can you tell the difference between actual new lines and binary bytes that happen to have the value of a new line character? Reading the file line by line is probably not an option in this case. It probably does not matter too much if all what you want to do is to print the data, but it does if you want to do any more subtile processing.