Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!howard
From: howard@wasatch.utah.edu (Walt Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Converting Reals
Summary: answer
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Date: 7 Jul 89 04:49:48 GMT
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The HP1000 has library routines for converting its internal floating point
format to IEEE format such as is used by the 9000/3x0 machines.  Chapter 11
of the 1000 Library manual shows that routine FCHI does the conversion you
want.  So I'd recommend that you get the 1000 to do the conversion before
you move the data over, rather than doing it on the 9000 afterwards.

BTW, the 1000 has routines for converting both to and from its internal
form, in both single and double precision, and you even get an error flag
to tell you if the conversion cannot be done correctly.

As soon as the Internet-compatible network software on the 1000 catches
up with HP's other machines, I'll probably even get to use this more often :-).