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From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Vax <-> 68882 Floating Point Format Inquiry
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Date: 8 Apr 89 18:54:11 GMT
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I would like to transfer a few hundred megabytes of data from our Vax to my
newly purchased NeXt system (68030/68882 processors). Since most of the data is
in floating point binary format, I would need to find an algorithm to convert
the 4 Vax bytes representing a float into the 4 NeXt bytes representing a
float. (I also thing that the 68882 uses ANSI representation of floats.)

I am sure I am not the first person to run into this problem, so if anyone
could send me a program (or an algorithm) that converts one of these floats
into the other,II would very much appreciate it.

Ivo Welch	phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu