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Re: Microsoft Binary Format --> IEEE

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From: Olaf Stoyke
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 08:44
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In <obotherDJK80M.25J@netcom.com> obother@netcom.com (Glen Blankenship) writes:

	Hello!

> Dave Carien (davec@hawaii.edu) wrote:

>> Hmmm...the link to borland ftp didn't work. Still looking to convert 
>> binary to hex, hex to binary.

> They've added a directory level since last I looked.  Try:

> ftp://ftp.borland.com/pub/techinfo/techdocs/language/cpp/bcpp/gen/msbin.zip

> ...instead.

> That's for Microsoft Binary<->IEEE 754 floating point conversions, though.

  ... and that's exactly what I was looking for!

> As for binary<->hex, do you mean binary ASCII strings to hex ASCII 
> strings, or binary numbers to hex ASCII, or what?  And did you want C 
> code or assembly?

  Thank you for that enormously important piece of information..

	Regards, Olaf

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From: os@cs.tu-berlin.de (Olaf Stoyke)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Binary Format --> IEEE
Date: 15 Dec 1995 08:44:07 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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