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Re: Data General Floating Point format? [message #46607]

Sat, 03 December 2005 16:35

Richard French
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Registered: December 2000

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On 12/3/05 7:11 PM, in article BFB79E45.116D%rfrench@wellesley.edu, "Richard
G. French" <rfrench@wellesley.edu> wrote:

> I have a binary file of floating point numbers from a Data General Nova
> computer, and I've been scouring the web unsuccessfully to find the
> bit-by-bit representation of a floating point number on a DG computer. Any
> suggestions on how to track down this information? Eventually, I'll write an
> IDL routine to decode these old file, unless someone has already done this,
> but the missing information is the detailed binary format. Thanks for any
> tips.
>
> Dick French
>

This always happens! Right after I send a post, I find the answer:

http://www.dclunie.com/medical-image-faq/html/part6.html

Sorry!
Dick

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