GIF file import

A have a problem correctly interpreting GIF file characters from an instrument. Any ideas on correctly interpreting a GIF file from an instrument. I'm stuck with the format, its what the instrument supports.
It appears that MS Windows platform, labview text control interpretation of GIF characters, like \s, \0, \FF, is different from the Agilent E4404B Spec An. I have no problem fetching the file, but characters are being changed (interpreted) whenever I use a labview text box (i.e. an ascii string control, I really need a character control, or some work around).
Attached is a good GIF from the instrument and the bad imported GIF.
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bad.GIF ‏16 KB
00191RMT.GIF ‏16 KB

Unless I am missing something here, the issue is not with the GIF files per se.  What is happening is that somewhere along the lines the file is being interpreted as text and the nulls (x00) are being replaced with spaces (x20).  You can recreate this by taking the good GIF file, changing the extension to .txt, opening in Notepad, saving, then renaming back to GIF.  You will see that it is no longer a valid GIF and if you examine the file in LV or a hex editor you will see all of the spaces.
LV does not do this, it may cause trouble if you read a binary file as txt with the convert EOL option selected, but that is about it.  Something happens to the file along the way from the instrument to LV.  That is why I am curious to know how he fetches the file from the analyzer and gets it into LV.

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