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Re: byteoder for float numbers conversion [message #8224 is a reply to message #8071]

Tue, 18 February 1997 00:00

wmc
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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

It might work for you in this case.
xdr doesn't sound right to me.

ps - PCs are the spawn of the devil. Why not leave your data on unix where
it will be happy? ;-)

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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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