The different apps had the liberty to decide whether they would open their
input and output files in binary mode or not, which could be confusing if
two different apps were handling the same type of file in different ways.

The solution is to centralise the decision of low level file organisation,
and that the apps would use a selection of formats to state the intent of
the file.
Reviewed-by: NTim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>