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Re: byteoder for float numbers conversion [message #8216 is a reply to message #8071]

Tue, 18 February 1997 00:00

Liam Gumley
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Registered: November 1994

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William Connolley wrote:
> In article n98@elaine44.Stanford.EDU, yafeng@leland.Stanford.EDU (Meili Zhong) writes:
>> I want to convert the float numbers from UNIX format(big-edian)
>> to PC format(small-edian).
>> None of these commands worked:
>> byteorder, data
>> byteorder, data, /xdrtof
>> byteorder, data, /ftoxdrt
> To go from SUN-floating-point to DECalpha-floating-point I use
> byteorder,data,/lswap

SWAP_ENDIAN works for me, e.g.

data = swap_endian( temporary( data ) )

It handles floating point as well as integer types.

Cheers,
Liam.

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		byteoder for float numbers conversion By: yafeng on Tue, 04 February 1997 00:00
		Re: byteoder for float numbers conversion By: Thomas A. McGlynn on Thu, 06 February 1997 00:00
		Re: byteoder for float numbers conversion By: Liam Gumley on Tue, 18 February 1997 00:00
		Re: byteoder for float numbers conversion By: pit on Tue, 18 February 1997 00:00
		Re: byteoder for float numbers conversion By: wmc on Tue, 18 February 1997 00:00

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