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From: eplrx7!cristy@uunet.uu.net (cristy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: VAX ==> SUN Floating Point Conversion
Keywords: Software
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Date: 6 May 89 03:15:49 GMT
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Original-Date: 18 Apr 89 18:04:35 GMT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 269, message 15 of 23

I need a routine (or algorithm) to convert VAX floating point binary
values to SUN floating point binary.  It seems that it is not as simple as
swapping bytes like you can with integer values.  Please Email your
responses to cristy@dupont.com.

  Thanks muchly in advance.