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Brilliant Paul!
It was the "b"inary switch in read and write that was causing the hitch - can't think how I missed that - I hit the same problem a few months ago on a file read and fixed it myself, so I'm a bit embarrassed.
The code had a few more problems in it that I fixed really quickly once ...

Hi Paul,
Thanks for your quick response to my first post, and sorry for the confusion over examples I gave.
Appears my edit of this topic got swallowed up somewhere:

Here is the abridged version:

I am trying to pipe the output of one aescrypt decryption to the input of an aescrypt encryption ...

Yes, I know we all get problems like this when we get older, but this problem is of the "C" kind ;) .

I am using MinGW on Windows7 cross platform development tool and was planning to shell out from my console program to console Aescrypt to decrypt a file and re-encrypt it with a new password.

I ...