I am writing binary files from scratch, but I cant write a byte 0x09 to a file as it gets interpreted as a tab and appears as 8 space characters 2020202020202020 instead.
This code running on Windows XP shows my problem 
!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use diagnostics;

my $file = 'test.dat';
open(FILE, ">:raw", "$file") or die "Could not open $file for writing:
+ $!\n";
binmode(FILE, ":raw");

my $tmp = 9;
my $output = pack( 'C', $tmp );
print FILE $output;
close FILE;
print "...Created $file\n";

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The file test.dat contains the following when viewed in hex
2020202020202020
I want it to contain
09
I am using Perl version
"This is perl, v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread"
Thanks
Al

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