From: "Mark Di Val" <MDV@supercrunch.com>
Subject: Re: MSB to IEEE format
Date: 24 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 defines the following functions

  Include:  <math.h>
  Syntax:   int _dieeetomsbin( double *src8, double *dst8 );
            int _dmsbintoieee( double *src8, double *dst8 );
            int _fieeetomsbin( float *src4, float *dst4 );
            int _fmsbintoieee( float *src4, float *dst4 );
  Returns:  0 if successful, or 1 on overflow.
                                    -?-
This may be a starting point - unfortunately I don't seem to have the
source.


Tony Tooley wrote in message <78d591$mda2@forums.borland.com>...
>I have some legacy Qbasic v2 data files that have fields stored in MSB fmt
>single
>and double precision format.  They are not compatible with Borland Pascal
>reals and doubles (which are IEEE).  Anyone know of a library or routine in
>Pascal that will allow me to convert these fields to reals, doubles etc?
>
>Thanks