Because C doesn't specify that text files work that way. If they're record-sequences of lines they might read very strange in binary mode.
No, rather it's got an unsatisfiable constraint that precludes doing anything useful.
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On the one hand, binary read/write have to be data preserving round-trip (full 9 bits)...
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...and on the other hand, they have to be able to communicate with the outside world in protocols all built on octets. No way to reconcile.
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