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From: SIAC@applelink.apple.com (Eric Ulevik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: IBM (Intel) Real Numbers
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Date: 13 Feb 89 17:52:59 GMT
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In article <14486@cup.portal.com> Greg_Mark_Finnegan@cup.portal.com 
writes:
>Has anyone ever tried to read a data file from an IBM PC
>that consisted of REAL (in the Pascal sense) numbers.> >
>Any help or code would be appreciated.

The simplest method (_if_ you can afford the disk space and CPU time) is
to re-read the pc data file into a pc program, and write it out as
ascii-format numbers (eg. "0.123E4"). This makes it a lot easier to
write a Mac program to read the data.

This is what I used to do in a multi-machine environment (not at Apple, 
BTW). Of course, we had an Elxsi 6400, so disk and cpu wasn't really
a problem  :-)

Eric Ulevik
email: SIAC@applelink.apple.com
-- These writings are mine, not Apple's. That's the way I like it.--